Doctors, patients not paying attention to risk scores of diabetes
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A study team reviewed 145 different risk scores for adult-onset diabetes. None of them were 100 percent accurate, but many of them could be useful in determining how likely someone can become diabetic within 10 years, according to the researchers, who say that half of all cases can be prevented with the help of diet, exercise and medicine.
Common risk scores included increasing age, obesity, high cholesterol, ethnicity, a family history of diabetes and low socioeconomic status, as published in the British Medical Journal.
"This study has confirmed what many doctors already suspected: that risk scores are good at detecting people at high risk of developing diabetes but very few people have actually had their risk estimated," said researcher Trisha Greenhalgh. "My father died of the complications of diabetes, which makes me at increased risk of developing it myself. I try to stay thin, keep active and get my blood pressure and cholesterol checked regularly."
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