Prediction scores to identify older adults at high risk for type 2 diabetes
- S. G. Wannamethee1,
- O. Papacosta1,
- P. Whincup2,
- C. Carson3,
- M. C. Thomas1,
- D. A. Lawlor4,
- S. Ebrahim3,
- N. Sattar5
- 1Research Department of Primary Care and Population Health, University College London, London, UK
- 2Department of Community Health Sciences, St George’s, University of London, London, UK
- 3Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, LSHTM, London, UK
- 4MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Research, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- 5Division of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Background and Aim
The greatest relative increase in type 2 diabetes (T2DM) prevalence in developed countries thought likely to occur over the next 25 years will be in the over 65 age group. The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of both simple strategies based on simple clinical parameters (suitable for use in primary care) and more complex scores involving blood markers to identify older individuals at high risk of developing T2DM.
Methods
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