Research Article
Development and Validation of a Simple Risk Score for Undiagnosed Type 2 Diabetes in a Resource-Constrained Setting
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of participants without history of type 2 diabetes in the two involved studies.
| | ENINBSC study | CRONICAS study | | ( = 2,472) | ( = 2,945) |
| Demographic variables | | | Sex (% females) | 1,209 (48.9%) | 1,500 (50.9%) | Age (mean (SD)) | 50.5 (12.1) | 55.3 (12.7) | Education in years (mean (SD)) | 7.8 (4.9) | 8.0 (4.9) | Behavioural variables | | | Current smoking (%) | 391 (15.9%) | 369 (11.5%) | Alcohol use (%) | 2,323 (94.1%) | 1,600 (54.3%) | Family history of diabetes (%) | 268 (11.2%) | 351 (11.9%) | Physical activity (% low level) | 606 (24.5%) | 938 (31.9%) | Anthropometric measures | | | Body mass index (mean (SD)) | 25.7 (4.5) | 27.6 (4.6) | Waist circumference (mean (SD)) | 91.0 (11.4) | 91.5 (11.0) | Waist-to-height ratio (mean (SD)) | 0.58 (0.08) | 0.59 (0.07) | Systolic blood pressure (mean (SD)) | 114.5 (18.5) | 117.2 (18.9) | Diastolic blood pressure (mean (SD)) | 71.1 (11.9) | 73.4 (11.1) | Hypertension (%) | 579 (23.8%) | 705 (24.0%) | Total cholesterol (mean (SD)) | 174.2 (36.9) | 199.7 (39.6) | HDL-cholesterol (mean (SD)) | 43.5 (5.3) | 41.7 (11.5) |
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SD: standard deviation and HDL: high-density lipoprotein. Results may not add due to missing values.
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