title: Evaluation of the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score to predict type 2 diabetes mellitus in a Colombian population: A longitudinal observational study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  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.
authors.affiliation: Diego Gomez-Arbelaez, Laura Alvarado-Jurado, Leonardo Forero-Naranjo, Paul Anthony Camacho, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Dirección de Investigaciones, Clínica de Síndrome Metabólico, Prediabetes y Diabetes, Fundación Oftalmológica de Santander - FOSCAL, Floridablanca 681004, Colombia.
authors.forename: Diego
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gomez-Arbelaez
authors.affiliation: Diego Gomez-Arbelaez, Laura Alvarado-Jurado, Leonardo Forero-Naranjo, Paul Anthony Camacho, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Dirección de Investigaciones, Clínica de Síndrome Metabólico, Prediabetes y Diabetes, Fundación Oftalmológica de Santander - FOSCAL, Floridablanca 681004, Colombia.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Alvarado-Jurado
authors.affiliation: Diego Gomez-Arbelaez, Laura Alvarado-Jurado, Leonardo Forero-Naranjo, Paul Anthony Camacho, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Dirección de Investigaciones, Clínica de Síndrome Metabólico, Prediabetes y Diabetes, Fundación Oftalmológica de Santander - FOSCAL, Floridablanca 681004, Colombia.
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ayala-Castillo
authors.affiliation: Diego Gomez-Arbelaez, Laura Alvarado-Jurado, Leonardo Forero-Naranjo, Paul Anthony Camacho, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Dirección de Investigaciones, Clínica de Síndrome Metabólico, Prediabetes y Diabetes, Fundación Oftalmológica de Santander - FOSCAL, Floridablanca 681004, Colombia.
authors.forename: Leonardo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Forero-Naranjo
authors.affiliation: Diego Gomez-Arbelaez, Laura Alvarado-Jurado, Leonardo Forero-Naranjo, Paul Anthony Camacho, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Dirección de Investigaciones, Clínica de Síndrome Metabólico, Prediabetes y Diabetes, Fundación Oftalmológica de Santander - FOSCAL, Floridablanca 681004, Colombia.
authors.forename: Paul Anthony
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Camacho
authors.affiliation: Diego Gomez-Arbelaez, Laura Alvarado-Jurado, Leonardo Forero-Naranjo, Paul Anthony Camacho, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Dirección de Investigaciones, Clínica de Síndrome Metabólico, Prediabetes y Diabetes, Fundación Oftalmológica de Santander - FOSCAL, Floridablanca 681004, Colombia.
authors.forename: Patricio
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lopez-Jaramillo
keywords: Colombia; Finnish diabetes risk score; Prediabetes; Screening; Type 2 diabetes mellitus