Components and validity of risk scores for screening for Type 2 diabetes mellitus

Diabetes is the fastest growing chronic disease worldwide. Conventional diagnostic tests, such as fasting plasma glucose, oral glucose tolerance test and glycosylated hemoglobin, are invasive and relatively expensive for application in low-income developing countries. Diabetes Risk Score has emerged...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nguyen, Chung, Lee, Andy, Binns, Colin
Format: Journal Article
Published: Future Medicine Ltd 2012
Online Access:http://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/pdf/10.2217/dmt.12.43
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22004