Chances of getting Type 2 Diabetes

What's the chance of developing Type 2 Diabetes ?

You'd think this lady was low risk but it turns out she's high risk.

So I tried the Diabetes risk calculator at The American Diabetes Association and they said I was at risk. After looking closely at the way they calculate the risk it became obvious that everyone over 56 is scored as at risk.

Maybe the British need their own Diabetes risk calculator and they have it. Try the British version of the risk calculator. It turns out that ethnicity is a huge part of the risk. The British calculator also takes into account where you live. I lived at the northern edge of London for a long time so I entered N14 6BE into the box for postcode (similar to Zip code in the USA - but with smaller areas).

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) published this long article on how the risk calculator was calibrated.

Of course, if you are Australian you'd want to use the Australian test. This has a number of interesting questions that the other do calculators don't have - like waist size and eating fruit and vegetables.