Online Screening Tests
It is a cost-efficient and practical way to identify individuals at high risk for drug-treated diabetes in the general population - Jaana Lindström MSC & Jaakko Tuomilehto MD PhD
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The Diabetes Risk Score
Screening for blood glucose has been used or proposed as the possible tool to identify individuals with high diabetes risk or asymptomatic diabetes. There is debate regarding whether screening for fasting glucose is sufficient or whether an oral glucose tolerance test is needed for detection of asymptomatic diabetes. Measuring either fasting or postchallenge (postprandial) blood glucose is an invasive procedure and is costly and time consuming. Blood glucose has a large random variation and only gives information on a subject’s current glycemic status. However, the true primary prevention would be to identify high-risk subjects when they are still in a normoglycemic state and to treat them…
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Test2Prevent
IDF has created an online diabetes risk assessment which aims to predict an individual’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes within the next ten years. The test is based on the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC) developed and designed by Adj. Prof Jaana Lindstrom and Prof. Jaakko Tuomilehto from the National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
Diabetes Risk Score
A practical tool to predict type 2 diabetes risk - Jaana Lindström MSC & Jaakko Tuomilehto MD PhD.
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