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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| author | Nguyen, Chung Lee, Andy Binns, Colin |
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| description | 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 as a practical screening tool during the past decade. The purpose of this review is to evaluate the components and validity of risk scores for the screening and early detection of Type 2 diabetes mellitus. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-220042019-02-19T04:26:14Z Components and validity of risk scores for screening for Type 2 diabetes mellitus Nguyen, Chung Lee, Andy Binns, Colin 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 as a practical screening tool during the past decade. The purpose of this review is to evaluate the components and validity of risk scores for the screening and early detection of Type 2 diabetes mellitus. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22004 http://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/pdf/10.2217/dmt.12.43 Future Medicine Ltd restricted |
| spellingShingle | Nguyen, Chung Lee, Andy Binns, Colin Components and validity of risk scores for screening for Type 2 diabetes mellitus |
| title | Components and validity of risk scores for screening for Type 2 diabetes mellitus |
| title_full | Components and validity of risk scores for screening for Type 2 diabetes mellitus |
| title_fullStr | Components and validity of risk scores for screening for Type 2 diabetes mellitus |
| title_full_unstemmed | Components and validity of risk scores for screening for Type 2 diabetes mellitus |
| title_short | Components and validity of risk scores for screening for Type 2 diabetes mellitus |
| title_sort | components and validity of risk scores for screening for type 2 diabetes mellitus |
| url | http://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/pdf/10.2217/dmt.12.43 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22004 |