Predicting absolute risk of type 2 diabetes using age and waist circumference values in an aboriginal Australian community.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To predict in an Australian Aboriginal community, the 10-year absolute risk of type 2 diabetes associated with waist circumference and age on baseline examination.

Method

A sample of 803 diabetes-free adults (82.3% of the age-eligible population) from baseline data of participants collected from 1992 to 1998 were followed-up for up to 20 years till 2012. The Cox-proportional hazard model was used to estimate the effects of waist circumference and other risk factors, including age, smoking and alcohol consumption status, of males and females on prediction of type 2 diabetes, identified through subsequent hospitalisation data during the follow-up period. The Weibull regression model was used to calculate the absolute risk estimates of type 2 diabetes with waist circ

SUBMITTER: Adegbija O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4395219 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature