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Table 4 Result of screening for child undernutrition based on maternal nutritional status (Height < 145 cm). EDHS, 2011

From: Maternal undernutrition as proxy indicators of their offspring’s undernutrition: evidence from 2011 Ethiopia demographic and health survey

 

95% Confidence Interval

Anthropometric indices

Sensitivity

Specificity

1PPV

2NPV

3AUC

0–59 months (n = 8505)

4HAZ (< −2)

3.11 (2.55, 3.74)

98.6 (98.3, 98.9)

61 (53.4, 68.2)

59.5 (58.5, 60.6)

0.509 (0.505, 0.512)

5WAZ (< −2)

3.11 (2.47, 3.88)

98.3 (98, 98.6)

43.5 (36.1, 51.1)

71.2 (70.3, 72.2)

0.507 (0.504, 0.511)

6WHZ (< −2)

2.18 (1.37, 3.29)

97.9 (97.6, 98.2)

12.4 (7.96, 18.2)

88.2 (87.5, 88.9)

0.501 (0.496, 0.505)

0–11 months (n = 1943)

 HAZ (< −2)

6.37 (3.75, 10)

98.5 (97.8, 99)

40.5 (25.6, 56.7)

86.8 (85.2, 88.3)

0.524 (0.509, 0.539)

 WAZ (< −2)

5.96 (3.96, 9.15)

98.6 (97.9, 99.1)

45.2 (29.8, 62.3)

84.2 (82.5, 85.8)

0.523 (0.509, 0.536)

 WHZ (< −2)

2.11 (0.85, 4.31)

97.8 (97, 98.5)

16.7 (6.79, 31.4)

83 (81.2, 84.6)

0.5 (0.491, 0.508)

12–23 months (n = 1612)

 HAZ (< −2)

3.43 (2.21, 5.07)

98.4 (97.3, 99.1)

61.5 (44.6, 76.6)

57.1 (54.6, 59.6)

0.509 (0.501, 0.517)

 WAZ (< −2)

3.6 (2.15 (5.63)

98.1 (97.1, 98.8)

46.2 (30.1, 62.8)

69.4 (67, 71.6)

0.509 (0.499, 0.518)

 WHZ (< −2)

3.53 (1.63, 6.59)

97.8 (96.9, 98.5)

23.1 (11.1, 39.3)

84.4 (82.5, 86.1)

0.507 (0.495, 0.519)

24–35 months (n = 1515)

 HAZ (< −2)

1.96 (1.12, 3.16)

99.3 (98.3, 99.8)

76.2 (52.8, 91.8)

46.4 (43.8, 49)

0.506 (0.501, 0.512)

 WAZ (< −2)

1.85 (0.89, 3.37)

99.9 (98, 99.4)

47.6 (25.7, 70.2)

64.4 (61.9, 66.8)

0.504 (0.497, 0.51)

 WHZ (< −2)

0.69 (0.18, 3.78)

98.5 (97.8, 99.1)

4.76 (0.12, 23.8)

90.4 (88.8, 91.8)

0.496 (0.489, 0.504)

36–47 months (n = 1766)

 HAZ (< −2)

2.9 (1.92, 4.19)

98.3 (97.2, 99.1)

65.9 (49.4, 79.9)

47.6 (45.2, 50)

0.506 (0.499, 0.513)

 WAZ (< −2)

2.23 (1.19, 3.78)

97.6 (96.6, 98.4)

31.7 (18.1, 48.1)

66.9 (64.6, 69.1)

0.499 (0.492, 0.507)

 WHZ (< −2)

2.24 (0.46, 6.4)

97.7 (96.8, 98.3)

7.32 (1.54, 19.9)

92.4 (91.1, 93.6)

0.5 (0.486, 0.513)

48–59 months (n = 1669)

 HAZ (< −2)

3.14 (2.02, 4.64)

98.9 (98, 99.5)

70.6 (52.5, 84.9)

54.7 (52.3, 57.2)

0.51 (0.503, 0.517)

 WAZ (< −2)

3.23 (1.89, 5.11)

98.5 (97.6, 99.1)

50 (32.4, 67.6)

68.8 (66.5, 71)

0.509 (0.5, 0.57)

 WHZ (< −2)

1.41 (0.17, 5)

97.9 (97.1, 98.6)

5.88 (0.72, 19.7)

91.4 (90, 92.7)

0.497 (0.486, 0.507)

  1. 1PPV: Positive predictive value, 2NNP: Negative predictive value, 3AUC: Area Under Roc Curve
  2. 4HAZ: height-for-age z-score, 5WAZ: weight-for-age z-score, 6WHZ: weight-for-height z-score