Table 5.

7 Characteristics of the Finnish T2DM Risk Score (FINDRISC) questionnaire,

using different cut-off values for the screen-detected unknown T2DM.

Sensitivity Specificity PPV NPV Study

sample %

Cut off = 100.0 (90.2– 28.8 (26.4– 4.4 (3.3– 99.9 15 (72.1)
9 99.8) 31.3) 5.9) (98.8–
100)

Cut off = 86.7 (72.5– 37.0 (34.5– 4.4 (3.1– 98.8 908 (63.7)
10 94.5) 39.7) 5.9) (97.4–
99.5)

Cut off = 82.2 (67.4– 46.2 (43.5– 4.7 (3.4– 98.8 780 (54.7)
11 91.5) 48.8) 6.5) (97.5–
99.4)

Cut off = 77.8 (62.5– 55.9 (53.2– 5.4 (3.9– 98.7 644 (45.2)
12 88.3) 58.5) 7.6) (97.6–
99.3)

Cut 51.1 (36.0– 79.1 (76.9– 7.4 (4.9– 98.0 311 (21.8)
off=15 66.1) 81.2) 11.0) (97.0–
98.7)

Calculate p-value
Table 5.6 Characteristics of the study participants by FINDRISC

Variable FINNISH T2DM RISK SCORE (FINDRISC)

9 - 10 11 - 12 13 - 14 15 - 16 17 - 18 p-valuea

Participants 18(82.1) 22(39.3) 10(17.9) 4(7.1) 2(3.6)

n (%)

Age (years) 49.9±10.2 53.2±10. 47.9±11.9 51.5±5.0 37.5±16.3 0.13

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BMI (kg/m2) 28.1±5.6 29.7±6.3 28.9±3.8 26.9±4.2 26.4±4.3 <0.01

Waist 87.3±11.6 83.9±25. 97.2±15.1 96.5±26.0 95.5±2.1 <0.01
Circumference 5
(cm)

Height(m) 1.6±0.8 1.6±0.1 1.6±0.1 1.7±0.1 1.7±0.1 <0.01

Hip (cm) 88.3±17.0 88.4±27. 101±17.7 92.8±30.5 97.0±9.9 <0.01

8

Weight (kg) 73.6±19.5 78.9±16. 75.5±8.9 79.5±10.9 76.0±8.5 <0.01

6

WHR 1.0±0.1 0.96±0.1 0.96±0.1 1.07±0.2 0.98±0.1 <0.01

WHtR 0.49±0.1 0.49±0.1 0.47±0.1 0.45±0.1 0.45±0.1 <0.01

FINDRISC 9.1±0.3 11.7±0.5 13.2±0.4 15.2±0.5 17.0±0.0 0.2

value

Hb1Ac 5.7±0.3 6.4±1.8 5.9±0.4 7.6±1.7 6.8±0.0 0.03

Fasting glucose 97.3±9.9 106.6±9. 106.4±7.9 128.3±1.3 118.5±23. <0.01

(FBG) (mg/dL) 6 3