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Diabetes Risk Assessment

Start Small, Change Big, Live Healthier

Step 01

About you

These select the right risk equation for you.

Sex — separate equations are used for each

Please choose one.

Age — choose your age group

Please choose your age group.

Step 02

Measurements

Use any units you like — switch each field independently.

Quick switch all:

Height

Enter a height between 1.40 m and 2.10 m.

Weight

Enter a weight between 40 kg and 180 kg.

Waist — around the belly button. Recommended: powers two cross-checks.

BMI —

Waist-to-height —

Step 03

Background

Ethnicity — required; selects coefficients calibrated to your group

Please choose one.

Smoking

Physical activity — used by the IDRS cross-check

Step 04

Health history

A few conditions meaningfully change diabetes risk.

Family history of diabetes — tick anyone diagnosed (parents or siblings)

Mother Father Brother or sister

Are you treated for high blood pressure?

History of heart disease or stroke?

Have you ever had diabetes in pregnancy (gestational)?

Have you been diagnosed with PCOS?

Medical history (optional) — tick any that apply

Learning disability Schizophrenia or bipolar disorder Regular corticosteroid (steroid) tablets Taking statins Second-generation (atypical) antipsychotics

Step 05

Symptoms right now

Checked separately from the score — symptoms are never averaged into a number.

Do you have any of these symptoms right now?

Excessive thirst Passing urine very often, especially at night Unexplained weight loss Persistent fatigue Blurred vision Slow-healing cuts or recurrent infections Tingling or numbness in hands or feet

Urgent symptoms — please read

Right now I feel very unwell — with vomiting, drowsiness, rapid or deep breathing, or stomach pain.

How this works & important limits