Type 2 Diabetes Risk Score

This Type 2 Diabetes Risk Score stratifies diabetes risk based on patient age, gender, hypertension status or family history.The type 2 diabetes risk calculator uses the following two formulas to generate the diabetes risk percentage:Terms = 6.322 - Sex - Rx Hypertensive - Rx Steroids - (0.063 x Age) - BMI - Family history - SmokerRisk = 100 / (1 + e^Terms)Depending on the answers provided, the “terms” formula above is populated with different variables, as described in the table below:Item - Answer Choice ValueGender - Female -0.879Gender - Male 0Prescription Hypertensive - Yes 1.222Prescription Hypertensive - No 0Prescription Steroids - Yes 2.191Prescription Steroids - No 0Age - In years x 0.063Body mass index - BMI <25 0Body mass index - BMI between 25 and 27.49 0.699Body mass index - BMI between 27.5 and 29.99 1.97Body mass index - BMI ≥30 2.518Family history - No 1st degree 0Family history - Parent or sibling 0.728Family history - Parent and sibling 0.753Smoker - No 0Smoker - Yes 0.855Smoker - Former smoker -0.218