The Diabetes Cohort Study and derivation of the risk assessment equations were carried out at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland between 2004 and 2011. The Health Research Council of New Zealand funded the study (04/146R) and the study was approved by the New Zealand Multi-regional Ethics Committee in 2004 (WGT/04/09/077). The New Zealand Society of the Study of Diabetes funded web development of the risk assessment tool.
