I stumbled across this and found it to be quite amusing. The people over at Global Insurance have a Diabetes Chances Calculator which based on 3 simple input values is supposed to tell you how likely you are to get Diabetes.

I wouldn’t expect anything less from a insurance company I suppose and I’m sure this simple web app uses the “most cutting edge, technologically advanced and complex algorithms” to calculate the results ;-).

Even though its completely ridiculous I figured I’d amuse myself a bit and run it a few times:

As a 5 year old male with 4 directly diabetic relatives:

“At age 5 you have a 21.6% chance of having diabetes.”

As a 25 year old female with 4 directly diabetic relatives:

“At age 25 you have a 21.74% chance of having diabetes.”

Lets try the same but with 8 relatives:

“At age 25 you have a 31.74% chance of having diabetes.”

And with 12:

“At age 25 you have a 31.74% chance of having diabetes.”

As you can see it seems to be mainly based on your Diabetic relatives. None-the-less amusing to play with, just take it with a grain of salt of course.

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This entry was posted on Friday, January 5th, 2007 at 6:33 am and is filed under Diabetes News, Diabetic Health.
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