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Bridging Diabetes and dental care: Undiagnosed diabetes risk among dental patients using FINDRISC questionnaire in a tertiary hospital, Nigeria
Abstract
Background: Diabetes risk assessment is vital to the prevention of complications arising from diabetes mellitus. Finish diabetes risk score (FINDRISC) is one of the vital instruments for diabetes risk evaluation.
Methods: The study was a cross sectional, analytic study in which 239 patients participated after obtaining informed consent. The FINDRISC questionnaires were selfadministered to the participants and analysed using SPSS version 25.
Results: The participants included 111 males and 128 females respectively. The average age of participants was 38.3±13.9 years. Majority (70.7%) of participants had low risk score for diabetes. Mild and moderate risk scores were obtained in 22.6% and 3.8% of participants respectively. The average risk score for Type 2 DM using FINDRISC score was 4.9±3.9 with a range of 0.0 to19.0. The predictors of type 2 DM were: age ≥ 38 years, non -involvement in exercise for 30 minutes for a period of 5 days, higher than normal BMI, and central obesity. The selfreported prevalence of diabetes was 3.9%. Among those with family history of diabetes, 4.2%, 4.6% and 2.9% involved the father, mother and siblings respectively. About 54.8% of 221 respondents have never been screened for diabetes.
Conclusion: FINDRISC scoring can be used to obtain a 10-year risk of developing diabetes mellitus thus, very effective in counselling participants. Dental clinic can be used as a focal point for DM screening.
