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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
Predicting diabetes: Clinical, biological, and genetic approaches
Diabetes Care, Volume 31, No. 10, Year 2008
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OBJECTIVE - To provide a simple clinical diabetes risk score and to identify characteristics that predict later diabetes using variables available in the clinic setting as well as biological variables and polymorphisms. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS - Incident diabetes was studied in 1,863 men and 1,954 women, 30-65 years of age at baseline, with diabetes defined by treatment or by fasting plasma glucose ≥7.0 mmol/1 at 3-yearly examinations over 9 years. Sex-specific logistic regression equations were used to select variables for prediction. RESULTS- A total of 140 men and 63 women developed diabetes. The predictive clinical variables were waist circumference and hypertension in both sexes, smoking in men, and diabetes in the family in women. Discrimination, as measured by the area under the receiver operating curves (AROCs), were 0.713 for men and 0.827 for women, a little higher than for the Finish Diabetes Risk (FINDRISC) score, with fewer variables in the score. Combining clinical and biological variables, the predictive equation included fasting glucose, waist circumference, smoking, and 7-glutamyltransferase for men and fasting glucose, BMI, triglycerides, and diabetes in family for women. The number of TCF7L2 and 1L6 deleterious alleles was predictive in both sexes, but after including the above clinical and biological variables, this variable was only predictive in women (P < 0.03) and the AROC statistics increased only marginally. CONCLUSIONS - The best clinical predictor of diabetes is adiposity, and baseline glucose is the best biological predictor. Clinical and biological predictors differed marginally between men and women. The genetic polymorphisms added little to the prediction of diabetes. © 2008 by the American Diabetes Association.
Authors & Co-Authors
Balkau, Beverley J.
France, Paris
Inserm
France, Gif-sur-yvette
Université Paris-saclay
Lange, Céline
France, Paris
Inserm
France, Gif-sur-yvette
Université Paris-saclay
Fézeu, Léopold K.
France, Paris
Inserm
France, Gif-sur-yvette
Université Paris-saclay
Czernichow, Seb́astien
France, Villetaneuse
University Sorbonne Paris Nord
France, Bobigny
Hopital Avicenne
Fumeron, Frédéric
France, Paris
Inserm
France, Paris
Université Paris Cité
Froguel, Philippe
France, Lille
Epigénomique Fonctionnelle et Physiologie Moléculaire du Diabète et Maladies Associées
France, Lille
Institut Pasteur de Lille
France, Lille
Université de Lille
Vaxillaire, Martine
France, Lille
Epigénomique Fonctionnelle et Physiologie Moléculaire du Diabète et Maladies Associées
France, Lille
Institut Pasteur de Lille
France, Lille
Université de Lille
Cauchi, Stéphane S.
France, Lille
Epigénomique Fonctionnelle et Physiologie Moléculaire du Diabète et Maladies Associées
France, Lille
Institut Pasteur de Lille
France, Lille
Université de Lille
Ducimetiére, Pierre P.
France, Paris
Inserm
France, Gif-sur-yvette
Université Paris-saclay
Eschwége, Éveline M.
France, Paris
Inserm
France, Gif-sur-yvette
Université Paris-saclay
Statistics
Citations: 258
Authors: 10
Affiliations: 9
Identifiers
Doi:
10.2337/dc08-0368
ISSN:
19355548
Research Areas
Genetics And Genomics
Health System And Policy
Noncommunicable Diseases
Participants Gender
Male
Female