What is
Diabetogen Screening?
Diabetogen is a genetic screening that helps to estimate the genetic predisposition of an individual to develop Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). The risk is calculated by analyzing 6.9 million genetic markers implicated in the disease and is given as a validated Polygenic Risk Score (PRS).
Diabetes: A condition with high blood glucose level occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces.
What is Polygenic Risk Score?
The score indicates if the individual is at high, moderate, or average genetic risk for developing Type 2 diabetes.
The Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) quantifies the contributing effects of multiple genetic (DNA) markers into a score and estimates whether the tested individual is at a high, moderate, or average risk of developing a health condition.
Diabetogen Screening is validated for the South Asian population.
Who should take
the Diabetogen Screening?
- Individuals with a family history of Diabetes.
- Individuals with hypertension, smoking habits, excessive alcohol consumption, dyslipidaemia, lack of physical activity, stress etc.
- All individuals above the age of 35 years, with comorbidities like hypertension, overweight, and dyslipidaemia.
- All individuals above the age of 18 years.
How will Diabetogen help you?
Knowing the genetic risk for Type 2 diabetes by Diabetogen will help one to take informed decisions towards leading a healthy life. This screening test is extremely helpful to identify the probable condition thus avoiding your disease progression resulting in complications, trauma, and treatments.
Diabetogen report provides scientific recommendations which can help in taking preventive measures to mitigate the disease risk. The recommendations include lifestyle changes like engaging in physical activity, balanced and healthy diet, health monitoring by routine health checkup, enhanced screening, and scientific evidence on benefits of knowing genetic risk for a health condition.
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