About Diabetes

• Diabetes is a chronic condition where sugar (glucose) levels continue to increase within your bloodstream.
• Normally the hormone insulin helps move glucose from your blood. In type 2 diabetes, the body’s response to insulin is muted, causing a rise in blood glucose.
• Left untreated diabetes can lead to severe and potentially dangerous symptoms.
• The International Diabetes Federation reports that 1 in 11 adults have diabetes and that 1 in 2 adults with diabetes is undiagnosed.

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Predicting Risk

• Additional questions will need to be asked after or before in order to have a more complete risk score.
• The current implementation does not ask all the questions for the final results. As it’s leading with a BodyScan prior and the basic details, the card will only calculate what has been entered.
• Further questions can be asked to extend this result - essentially making it a “two-part” risk answer.
• Partner integrations will vary and if they are type-2 diabetes specific, asking these questions on the input screen might be preferred and encouraged.

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These questions are common to all T2D risk calculators and are (from the Finnish study “Other methods”):

Q: Use of blood pressure medication

• Ans: No +0, Yes +2

Q: History of high blood glucose

• Ans: No +0, Yes +2

Q: Physical activity

• Ans: ≥4 hr/week +0, <4 hr/week +2

Q: Daily consumption of vegetables, fruits, or berries

• Ans: No +0, Yes +2

Q: Family history of diabetes

• Ans: No +0 Yes, 2nd degree relative +3 Yes, 1st degree relative +5

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Example Implementation

The current implementation in CompleteScan asks the questions as part of FaceScan so we used them to add the extra weightings you see below. However, in multi-scan demo, we do not ask these, and therefore will need to:

1. Add them to input, but based on the above section questions [recommended]
2. Ask them afterward in a “2 part” risk.

Age

• < 35 years = 0 points
• 35 – 44 years = 2 points
• 45 – 54 years = 4 points
• 55 – 64 years = 6 points
• 65+ years = 8 points

Gender

• Male = 3 points
• Female = 0 points

Are you currently taking high blood pressure medication?

• Yes = 2 points
• No = 0 points

Do you currently smoke?

• Yes = 2 points
• No = 0 points

Waist (Female)Different waist circumference thresholds compared to central obesity definition by WHO/IDF

• <88 cm = 0 points88 – 100 cm = 4 points>100 cm = 7 points

Waist (Male)Different waist circumference thresholds compared to central obesity definition by WHO/IDF

• <102 cm = 0 points102 – 110 cm = 4 points>110 cm = 7 points