Diabetes risk test
Seven questions that pick out most adults with type 2 diabetes they don't know about.
How to do it
- Enter your age, height and weight.
- If you have a tape measure, measure your waist just above your hip bones, after breathing out.
- Tick each statement that's true for you.
Your result
Enter your age to see your score.
Nothing you enter leaves this page unless you save your result.
What the research found
The score was built at Weill Cornell from a US national health survey and is the basis of the American Diabetes Association's risk test. In a later survey of 1,640 adults, a score of 5 or more flagged 35% of people and caught 79% of those with undiagnosed diabetes, while 67% of people without it scored under 5. In 19,728 adults from two community studies it caught 72%. Only about 1 in 10 people who score 5 or more turn out to have diabetes, so a high score means you should get a blood test. It doesn't mean you have it.
Studied in: 5,258 US adults in a national health survey, checked in 1,640 more and in 19,728 from two community studies.
- Bang H et al. Development and validation of a patient self-assessment score for diabetes risk. Ann Intern Med. 2009;151(11):775-83. PubMed