Non-invasive type 2 diabetes risk scores do not identify diabetes when the cause is β-cell failure: The Africans in America study

BackgroundEmerging data suggests that in sub-Saharan Africa β-cell-failure in the absence of obesity is a frequent cause of type 2 diabetes (diabetes). Traditional diabetes risk scores assume that obesity-linked insulin resistance is the primary cause of diabetes. Hence, it is unknown whether diabet...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Public Health
Main Authors:	Annemarie Wentzel, Arielle C. Patterson, M. Grace Duhuze Karera, Zoe C. Waldman, Blayne R. Schenk, Christopher W. DuBose, Anne E. Sumner, Margrethe F. Horlyck-Romanovsky
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-01
Subjects:	type 2 diabetes risk score African (Black) diaspora β-cell failure insulin resistance diabetes screening
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.941086/full