BACKGROUND The Achutha Menon Centre Diabetes Risk Score (AMCDRS), which was developed in rural Kerala State, South India, had not previously been externally validated. We examined the performance of the AMCDRS in urban and rural areas in the district of Vellore in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and compared it with other diabetes risk scores developed from India. METHODS We used the da...

Unfortunately, more than 50% of the diabetic patients in India remain unaware of their diabetic status, which increases the risk of the development of diabetic complications in them. This underscores the need for mass awareness and screening programmes to detect diabetes at an early stage. For this purpose, we have used a simplified Indian Diabetes Risk Score (IDRS) [1] for the prediction of di...

Introduction: The patients with Type 2 diabetes Mellitus may often remain asymptomatic for a longer period of time. Indian Diabetes Risk Score (IDRS), simple screening tool prediction undiagnosed diabetes. Objective: Validation IDRS standard test type among urban population Jhalawar, Rajasthan. Material and Methods: A Community based Cross-sectional study was carried out in field practice area ...

BACKGROUND Screening for undiagnosed diabetes is not widely undertaken due to the high costs and invasiveness of blood sampling. Simple non-invasive tools to identify high risk individuals can facilitate screening. The main objectives of this study are to develop and validate a risk score for screening undiagnosed diabetes among Sri Lankan adults and to compare its performance with the Cambridg...