Development and Validation of the Korean Diabetes Risk Score: A 10-Year National Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A diabetes risk score in Korean adults was developed and validated.

Methods

This study used the National Health Insurance Service-National Health Screening Cohort (NHIS-HEALS) of 359,349 people without diabetes at baseline to derive an equation for predicting the risk of developing diabetes, using Cox proportional hazards regression models. External validation was conducted using data from the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study. Calibration and discrimination analyses were performed separately for men and women in the development and validation datasets.

Results

During a median follow-up of 10.8 years, 37,678 cases (event rate=10.4 per 1,000 person-years) of diabetes were identified in the development cohort. The risk score included age, family history of

SUBMITTER: Ha KH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6202558 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature