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. 2015 Dec 10;6(17):1337-44.
doi: 10.4239/wjd.v6.i17.1337.

Evaluation of the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score to predict type 2 diabetes mellitus in a Colombian population: A longitudinal observational study

Diego Gomez-Arbelaez  1 , Laura Alvarado-Jurado  1 , Miguel Ayala-Castillo  1 , Leonardo Forero-Naranjo  1 , Paul Anthony Camacho  1 , Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo  1
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Evaluation of the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score to predict type 2 diabetes mellitus in a Colombian population: A longitudinal observational study

Diego Gomez-Arbelaez et al. World J Diabetes. .

Abstract

Aim: To assess the performance of the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC) questionnaire for detecting and predicting type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) in a Colombian population.

Methods: This is a longitudinal observational study conducted in Floridablanca, Colombia. Adult subjects (age ≥ 35 years) without known diabetes, were included. A modified version of FINDRISC was completed, and the glycemia values from all the subjects were collected from the hospital's database. Firstly, a cross-sectional analysis was performed and then, the subsample of prediabetic participants was followed for diabetes incidence.

Results: A total of 772 subjects were suitable for the study. The overall prevalence of undiagnosed DM2 was 2.59%, and the incidence of DM2 among the prediabetic participants was 7.5 per 100 person-years after a total of 265257 person-years follow-up. The FINDRISC at baseline was significantly associated with undiagnosed and incident DM2. The area under receiver operating characteristics curve of the FINDRISC score for detecting undiagnosed DM2 in both men and women was 0.7477 and 0.7175, respectively; and for predicting the incidence of DM2 among prediabetics was 71.99% in men and 67.74% in women.

Conclusion: The FINDRISC questionnaire is a useful screening tool to identify cross-sectionally unknown DM2 and to predict the incidence of DM2 among prediabetics in the Colombian population.

Keywords: Colombia; Finnish diabetes risk score; Prediabetes; Screening; Type 2 diabetes mellitus.

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Receiver operating characteristics curves for the prevalence of undiagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus by gender and Finnish Diabetes Risk Scores. DM2: Type 2 diabetes mellitus; ROC: Receiver operating characteristics.
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Figure 2
Receiver operating characteristics curves for the incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus by gender and Finnish Diabetes Risk Scores, during follow-up and among the subsample of prediabetic patients. DM2: Type 2 diabetes mellitus; ROC: Receiver operating characteristics.
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