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 studyCRONICAS 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)

SD: standard deviation and HDL: high-density lipoprotein.
Results may not add due to missing values.