title: Achutha Menon Centre Diabetes Risk Score: a type 2 diabetes screening tool for primary health care providers in rural India.
abstract: The authors aimed to develop a diabetes risk score for primary care providers in rural India. They used the baseline data of 451 participants (15-64 years) of a cohort study in a rural area of Kerala, India. The new risk score with age, family history of diabetes, and waist circumference identified 40.8% for confirmatory testing, had a sensitivity of 81.0%, specificity of 68.4%, positive predictive value of 37.0%, and negative predictive value of 94.0% for an optimal cutoff ≥4 with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.812 (95% confidence interval = 0.765-0.860). The new risk score with 3 simple, easy-to-measure, less time-consuming, and less expensive variables could be suitable for use in primary care settings of rural India.
authors.affiliation: Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, VIC, Australia speaktosat@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Thirunavukkarasu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sathish
authors.affiliation: Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: Srinivasan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kannan
authors.affiliation: Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: P Sankara
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Sarma
authors.affiliation: Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: Kavumpurathu Raman
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Thankappan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D012372:ROC Curve; D012307:Risk Factors; D012424:Rural Population; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D055105:Waist Circumference; D055815:Young Adult