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QDiabetes is a computer-based calculator used across the U.K. National Health Service for estimating 10-year risk for type 2 diabetes. In this study, researchers used routinely collected data from more than 1400 general practices in England to derive and validate an updated risk calculator, QDiabetes-2018, in 11.5 million adults who were free of diabetes at baseline.
Three models were analyzed. In Model A, risk factors included those already considered in QDiabetes (i.e., age, ethnicity, material deprivation, body-mass index, smoking, family history of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, treated hypertension, and corticosteroid use) and several new risk factors: atypical antipsychotic use, statin use, schizophrenia or bipolar affective disorde…