Open AccessAdapting Diabetes Risk Scores for Jordan
Author(s) -
Amjad Al Shdaifat,
Yousef Khader,
Muwafag Hyari,
Omar Shatnawi,
Mus’ab Banat
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of general medicine
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.722
H-Index - 36
ISSN - 1178-7074
DOI - 10.2147/ijgm.s321063
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , framingham risk score , logistic regression , risk assessment , type 2 diabetes , receiver operating characteristic , endocrinology , disease , computer security , computer science
Diabetes risk score can be used as a simple non-invasive screening tool for identifying people with high risk of diabetes. This study aimed to assess the predictive power of various risk-scoring systems to predict pre-diabetes and diabetes in Jordanian adults.