Sensitivity and Specificity Improvement in Abdominal Obesity Diagnosis Using Cluster Analysis during Waist Circumference Cut-Off Point Selection

Table 5

Distribution of the population according to BMI and Metabolic Health Status. Maracaibo City Metabolic Syndrome Prevalence Syndrome, 2013.

	Women						Men
	Healthy		Sick^*		Total		Healthy		Sick^*		Total
		%		%		%		%		%		%
Normal weight	336	92.3	28	7.7	364	100.0	202	84.9	36	15.1	238	100.0
Overweight	240	75.9	76	24.1	316	100.0	294	81.7	66	18.3	360	100.0
Obesity class 1	59	31.4	129	68.6	188	100.0	79	39.9	119	60.1	198	100.0
Obesity class II	28	34.1	54	65.9	82	100.0	28	37.3	47	62.7	75	100.0
Obesity class III	14	33.3	28	66.7	42	100.0	5	12.8	34	87.2	39	100.0
Total	677	68.2	315	31.8	992	100.0	608	66.8	302	33.2	910	100.0

^*The “Sick” term applied here conveys the metabolically disturbed subjects which have metabolic obese profiles.