title: Screening performance of diabetes risk scores among Asians and whites in rural Kerala, India.
abstract: We compared the screening performance of risk scores for Asians and whites for diabetes, dysglycemia, and metabolic syndrome. Our subjects were 451 people aged 15 to 64 years who participated in a cohort study from May 2003 through September 2010 in a rural area of the Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala, India. All outcome measures showed overlap in the range of area under the receiver operating characteristic curves of Asian and white diabetes risk scores (DRSs). Asian and white DRSs performed similarly in rural India.
authors.affiliation: Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram 695011, Kerala, India. speaktosat@gmail.com
authors.forename: Thirunavukkarasu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sathish
authors.forename: Srinivasan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kannan
authors.forename: Sankara P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Sarma
authors.forename: Kavumpurathu Raman
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Thankappan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D044466:Asian People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001769:Blood; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000592:standards*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012372:ROC Curve; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012307:Risk Factors; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult