Table 4.

Sensitivity and specificity of ISPED, WHO, and IOTF defined categories of overweight (including obesity) or obesity for predicting clustered CMRFs in the total sample and in groups stratified by gender and age

Overweight
	Total	Gender		Age
		Males	Females	Children	Adolescents
ISPED
sensitivity	98.1	97.3	99.1	98.2	98.1
specificity	22.0	20.6	23.5	24.0	20.8
WHO
sensitivity	98.9	98.4	99.4	98.6	98.9
specificity	19.1	17.7	20.5	21.1	17.8
IOTF
sensitivity	98.4	97.9	99.1	98.2	98.5
specificity	21.6	20.1	22.9	23.6	20.3
Obesity
	Total	Gender		Age
		Males	Females	Children	Adolescents
ISPED
sensitivity	86.3	85.0	87.8	87.7	85.7
specificity	41.3	41.4	41.1	42.6	40.4
WHO
sensitivity	96.0	95.4	96.7	97.7	95.3
specificity	28.0	24.7	31.2	27.7	28.2
IOTF
sensitivity	87.2	86.4	88.2	93.2	84.5
specificity	40.1	39.1	41.0	36.5	42.4

ISPED Italian Society for Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, WHO Word Health Organization, IOTF International Obesity Task Force