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Achutha Menon Centre Diabetes Risk Score: a type 2 diabetes screening tool for primary health care providers in rural India.
Asia-Pacific journal of public health - 1 Mar 2015
Sathish Thirunavukkarasu, Kannan Srinivasan, Sarma P Sankara, Thankappan Kavumpurathu Raman
Abstract excerpt
The authors aimed to develop a diabetes risk score for primary care providers in rural India. They used the baseline data of 451 participants (15-64 years) of a cohort study in a rural area of Kerala, India. The new risk score with age, family history of diabetes, and waist circumference identified 40.8% for confirmatory testing, had a sensitivity of 81.0%, specificity of 68.4%, positive predictive value of...
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