Table 2 Agreement of obesity prevalence measured by Ethiopian and WHO BMI cut-offs with obesity based on ADP measured body fat percentage among Ethiopian adult males
From: Performance of newly developed body mass index cut-off for diagnosing obesity among Ethiopian adults
Variables | n | Prevalence of obesity | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(a) Obesity based on ADP measured body fat > 25% for males (%) | (b) Obesity based on BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2 (%) | Difference (a–b) (%) | Kappa | (c) Obesity based on Ethiopian BMI cut-off males > 22.2 kg/m2 (%) | Difference (a–c) (%) | Kappa | ||
Age group | ||||||||
 20–30 | 145 | 29.7 | 1.4 | 28.30 | 0.019 | 35.9 | − 6.20 | 0.642 |
 31–40 | 86 | 59.3 | 5.8 | 53.50 | 0.081 | 57.0 | 2.30 | 0.809 |
 ≥ 41 | 76 | 76.3 | 2.6 | 73.70 | 0.017 | 67.1 | 9.20 | 0.775 |
 Total | 307 | 49.5 | 2.9 | 46.60 | 0.047 | 49.5 | 0.00 | 0.752 |
Ethnicity | ||||||||
 Oromo | 149 | 38.3 | 2.0 | 36.30 | 0.064 | 43.0 | − 4.70 | 0.792 |
 Amhara | 73 | 64.4 | 5.5 | 58.90 | 0.019 | 63.0 | 1.40 | 0.674 |
 Gurage | 16 | 81.2 | 6.2 | 75.00 | 0.030 | 56.2 | 25.00 | 0.458 |
 Kefa | 12 | 58.3 | 0.0 | 58.30 | 0.000 | 58.3 | 0.00 | 1.000 |
 Others | 28 | 57.1 | 3.6 | 53.50 | 0.054 | 57.1 | 0.00 | 0.708 |
 Dawro | 17 | 52.9 | 0.0 | 52.90 | 0.000 | 35.3 | 17.60 | 0.653 |
 Yem | 12 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 25.00 | 0.000 | 33.3 | − 8.30 | 0.800 |
 Total | 307 | 49.5 | 2.9 | 46.60 | 0.047 | 49.5 | 0.0 | 0.752 |