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Risk assessment of Pakistani individuals for diabetes (RAPID).
Primary care diabetes - 1 Dec 2012
Riaz Musarrat, Basit Abdul, Hydrie Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Shaheen Fariha, Hussain Akhtar, Hakeem Rubina, Shera Abdus Samad
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OBJECTIVE: To develop and evaluate a risk score to predict people at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes in Pakistan. METHODOLOGY: Cross sectional data regarding primary prevention of diabetes in Pakistan. Diabetes risk score was developed by using simple parameters namely age, waist circumference, and family history of diabetes. Odds ratios of the model were used to assign a score value for each variable and...
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