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. 2013 Mar 21;10:E37. doi: 10.5888/pcd10.120131

Table 1. Screening Performance of Diabetes Risk Scores for Diabetes, Dysglycemia, and Metabolic Syndrome Among 451 Participants in Rural Kerala, India.

Diabetes Risk Score Optimal CutOffa High Riskb, % Sensitivityc, % Specificityd, % PPVe, % NPVf, % AROCg (95% CI)
Diabetesh
IDRS (14) ≥60 49.0 85.7 59.4 32.6 94.8 0.80 (0.76–0.85)
Ramachandran et al (15) ≥24 35.3 71.4 73.0 37.7 91.8 0.79 (0.75–0.84)
Chaturvedi et al (16) ≥22 29.9 65.5 78.2 40.7 90.8 0.78 (0.73–0.83)
Aekplakorn et al (17) ≥7 45.5 79.8 62.4 32.7 93.1 0.78 (0.72–0.83)
ADA questionnaire (1) ≥6 37.3 70.2 70.3 35.1 91.2 0.74 (0.69–0.80)
Bang et al (2) ≥3 25.5 59.5 82.3 43.5 89.9 0.76 (0.70–0.82)
AUSDRISK (3) ≥15 27.3 67.9 82.0 46.3 91.8 0.83 (0.78–0.88)
FINDRISC (4) ≥6 37.7 73.8 70.6 36.5 92.2 0.81 (0.75–0.86)
Danish Risk Score (5) ≥18 39.7 73.8 68.1 34.6 91.9 0.76 (0.71–0.82)
DESIRi (6) ≥3 41.7 66.7 64.0 29.8 89.4 0.72 (0.66–0.78)
Rotterdam Prediction Model 1 (7) ≥6 12.2 28.6 91.6 43.6 84.8 0.58 (0.50–0.65)
Dysglycemiaj
IDRS (14) ≥60 49.0 83.1 63.1 44.3 91.3 0.80 (0.76–0.84)
Ramachandran et al (15) ≥23 40.4 74.6 71.8 48.4 88.8 0.80 (0.75–0.84)
Chaturvedi et al (16) ≥15 58.3 90.7 53.2 40.7 94.1 0.79 (0.75–0.84)
Aekplakorn et al (17) ≥7 45.5 77.1 65.8 44.4 89.0 0.77 (0.72–0.82)
ADA questionnaire (1) ≥6 37.3 65.3 72.7 45.8 85.5 0.73 (0.67–0.78)
Bang et al (2) ≥2 43.9 74.6 67.0 44.4 88.1 0.75 (0.69–0.80)
AUSDRISK (3) ≥13 37.3 72.0 75.1 50.6 88.3 0.80 (0.76–0.85)
FINDRISC (4) ≥5 45.2 75.4 65.5 43.6 88.3 0.78 (0.73–0.83)
Danish Risk Score (5) ≥18 39.7 71.2 71.5 46.9 87.5 0.75 (0.70–0.81)
DESIR (6) ≥3 41.7 63.6 66.1 39.9 83.7 0.71 (0.66–0.77)
Rotterdam Prediction Model 1 (7) ≥6 12.2 25.4 92.5 54.5 77.8 0.56 (0.50–0.63)
Metabolic syndromek
IDRS (14) ≥60 49.0 81.8 65.3 50.7 89.1 0.83 (0.79–0.87)
Ramachandran et al (15) ≥22 48.6 78.8 64.6 49.3 87.5 0.79 (0.75–0.84)
Chaturvedi et al (16) ≥21 34.6 75.9 83.4 66.7 88.8 0.87 (0.84–0.91)
Aekplakorn et al (17) ≥7 45.5 81.0 70.1 54.1 89.4 0.83 (0.79–0.87)
ADA questionnaire (1) ≥6 37.3 56.2 71.0 45.8 78.8 0.65 (0.59–0.71)
Bang et al (2) ≥2 43.9 63.8 64.9 45.4 79.7 0.65 (0.59–0.71)
AUSDRISK (3) ≥11 48.1 81.8 66.6 51.6 89.3 0.82 (0.78–0.86)
FINDRISC (4) ≥4 55.4 94.2 61.5 51.6 96.0 0.84 (0.80–0.88)
Danish risk score (5) ≥13 55.0 77.4 54.8 42.7 84.7 0.70 (0.64–0.75)
DESIR (6) ≥3 41.7 89.1 79.0 64.9 94.3 0.91 (0.89–0.94)
Rotterdam Prediction Model 1 (7) ≥6 12.2 13.9 88.5 34.5 70.2 0.41 (0.35–0.46)

Abbreviations: PPV, positive predictive value; NPV, negative predictive value; AROC, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve; CI, confidence interval; IDRS, Indian Diabetes Risk Score; ADA, American Diabetes Association; AUSDRISK, Australian type 2 Diabetes Risk Assessment Tool; FINDRISC, Finnish Diabetes Risk Score; DESIR, Data From the Epidemiological Study on the Insulin Resistance Syndrome; HDL, high-density lipoprotein.

a

Score value with maximum sensitivity and specificity.

b

Proportion of people requiring confirmatory biochemical testing.

c

True positives/true positives + false negatives.

d

True negatives/true negatives + false positives.

e

True positives/true positives + false positives.

f

True negatives/true negatives + false negatives.

g

Derived by plotting 1-specificity on the x-axis and sensitivity on the y-axis.

h

Fasting plasma glucose ≥126 mg/dL or on antidiabetes medication, or both.

i

Clinical risk score.

j

Impaired fasting glucose (fasting plasma glucose 110–125 mg/dL and not on antidiabetes medication) or diabetes (fasting plasma glucose ≥126 mg/dL or on antidiabetes medication, or both).

k

Three or more of the following: raised triglycerides (≥150 mg/dL or treatment of this lipid abnormality), reduced HDL cholesterol (<40 mg/dL in men and <50 mg/dL in women, or treatment of this lipid abnormality), raised blood pressure (systolic blood pressure ≥130 mm Hg or diastolic blood pressure ≥85mm Hg or treatment of previously diagnosed hypertension), or raised fasting plasma glucose (≥100 mg/dL or previously diagnosed type 2 diabetes).