Validation of the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC) questionnaire for undiagnosed type 2 diabetes screening in the Slovenian working population

Gregor Štiglic; Nino Fijačko; Andraž Stožer; Aziz Sheikh; Majda Pajnkihar

doi:10.1016/j.diabres.2016.08.010

Validation of the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC) questionnaire for undiagnosed type 2 diabetes screening in the Slovenian working population

Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2016 Oct:120:194-7. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2016.08.010. Epub 2016 Aug 26.

Authors

Gregor Štiglic¹, Nino Fijačko², Andraž Stožer³, Aziz Sheikh⁴, Majda Pajnkihar⁵

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maribor, Žitna ulica 15, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Smetanova ulica 17, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia. Electronic address: gregor.stiglic@um.si.
² Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maribor, Žitna ulica 15, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia.
³ Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor, Taborska ulica 8, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia.
⁴ Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK; Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St., Boston, MA 02115, USA.
⁵ Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maribor, Žitna ulica 15, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor, Taborska ulica 8, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia.

PMID: 27592167
DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2016.08.010

Abstract

We performed a cross-sectional population-based study on 632 participants, aged 20-65, who were screened using the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC) questionnaire. Optimal results for men were achieved at FINDRISC⩾7 (100.0% sensitivity and 0.78 AUC) and for women at FINDRISC⩾13 (60.0% sensitivity and 0.78 AUC).

Keywords: Fasting plasma glucose; Prevention; Screening; Undiagnosed type 2 diabetes.

Publication types

Validation Study

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Area Under Curve
Cross-Sectional Studies
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / diagnosis*
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / epidemiology
Female
Humans
Male
Mass Screening / methods*
Middle Aged
Population Groups
ROC Curve
Slovenia
Surveys and Questionnaires
Young Adult