Use of Alternative Thresholds Defining Insulin Resistance to Predict Incident Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Cardiovascular Disease | Zendy

Martin K. Rutter | Zendy; Peter W.F. Wilson | Zendy; Lisa Sullivan | Zendy; Caroline S. Fox | Zendy; Ralph B. D’Agostino | Zendy; James B. Meigs | Zendy

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Use of Alternative Thresholds Defining Insulin Resistance to Predict Incident Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Cardiovascular Disease

Author(s) -

Martin K. Rutter,

Peter W.F. Wilson,

Lisa Sullivan,

Caroline S. Fox,

Ralph B. D’Agostino,

James B. Meigs

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

circulation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795

H-Index - 607

eISSN - 1524-4539

pISSN - 0009-7322

DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.107.727727

Subject(s) - medicine , receiver operating characteristic , insulin resistance , quantile , diabetes mellitus , area under the curve , likelihood ratios in diagnostic testing , type 2 diabetes mellitus , type 2 diabetes , cardiology , endocrinology , statistics , mathematics

The performance characteristics of surrogate insulin resistance (IR) measures, commonly defined as the top 25% of the measure's distribution, used to predict incident type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) have not been critically assessed in community samples.

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