PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Buckley, Rita
ED  - Wareham, Nick
TI  - The Challenges of Predicting Risk: Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
DP  - 2012 Nov 01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 4--5
VI  - 12
IP  - 11
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/12/11/4.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/12/11/4.full
AB  - Pandemic diabetes and cardiovascular disease have created an imperative to develop risk-prediction models for early identification of patients with undiagnosed type 2 diabetes or those at risk of developing the disease [Collins GS et al. BMC Medicine 2011]. This article discusses the current status of risk-assessment tools.