Duration of diabetes, age at onset of diabetes, systolic blood pressure, LDL-C, creatinine and alcohol drinking were independent predictors of microalbuminuria and were included in the scoring scheme. We present a rela-tively simple point scoring scheme for calculating the risk of microalbuminuria in type 2 diabetes. The scores were derived from a stepwise logistic regression model calculated from case control studies.
The performance of the risk scoring scheme between derivation and validation set had statistical significance (p-Value < 0.001). Although because of the subject’s data in the derivation set was draw from the general hospital Figure 1. Areas under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves of the derivation set: Solid line (0.768) and the validation set: Dashed line (0.758). Test for equivalence of the two areas under the ROC curves, p-Value 0.798. The gray areas represent the lower and upper 95% confidence interval. The diagonal line indicates no predictive ability.