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Prevalence of diabetes mellitus and the performance of a risk score among Hindustani Surinamese, African Surinamese and ethnic Dutch: a cross-sectional population-based study

Navin R Bindraban1,2, Irene GM van Valkengoed1, Gideon Mairuhu2, Frits Holleman2, Joost BL Hoekstra2, Bob PJ Michels2, Richard P Koopmans2 and Karien Stronks1*

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1 Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2 Department of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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BMC Public Health 2008, 8:271 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-271

Published: 1 August 2008

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'Appendix: The risk score for DM from the population based SUNSET cohort'. Instructions on how to calculate the simplified risk score for diabetes mellitus from the population based SUNSET cohort.

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