Evaluation of the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC) as a Screening Tool for the Metabolic Syndrome | Zendy

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Evaluation of the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC) as a Screening Tool for the Metabolic Syndrome

Author(s) -

Mohsen Janghorbani,

Hossein Ali Adineh,

Masoud Amini

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

the review of diabetic studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.701

H-Index - 41

eISSN - 1614-0575

pISSN - 1613-6071

DOI - 10.1900/rds.2013.10.283

Subject(s) - quartile , medicine , metabolic syndrome , incidence (geometry) , type 2 diabetes , diabetes mellitus , receiver operating characteristic , population , obesity , endocrinology , environmental health , confidence interval , physics , optics

Traditionally, the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC) questionnaire is a screening tool to estimate risk of type 2 diabetes. In this study, we evaluated the ability of FINDRISC to predict the development of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) in an Iranian population without diabetes and MetS.

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