title: Prediabetes and cardiovascular risk alert programs - useful tools for preventing diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular events in primary medicine.
abstract: We propose alert programs, made in Excel using VBA, for general practitioners, in order not to miss the diagnosis of prediabetes and cardiovascular risk factors for their patients and to improve their management.
authors.affiliation: "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.
authors.forename: Horia
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Virgolici
authors.affiliation: "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.
authors.forename: Bogdana
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Virgolici
authors.affiliation: "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Purcarea
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011236:Prediabetic State / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011381:Programming Languages; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface