The Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC), incident diabetes and low-grade inflammation.

Aims: The FINDRISC was created to predict the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Since T2DM associates with inflammation we evaluated if the FINDRISC could predict either current or incident T2DM, and elevated high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP).

Methods: 41,880 people (age 41.