AUSDRISK is the Australian Type 2 Diabetes Risk Assessment Tool — the same ten-question instrument your GP and practice nurse use, and the one built into the National Diabetes Services Scheme. This page runs the real scoring, not an approximation: the point table and the risk bands are taken from the Australian Government Department of Health instrument and the validating study.
It is for adults who do not already have diabetes and want to know where they sit. You answer ten questions — age, sex, ancestry, family history, waist measurement, blood-pressure history, smoking, diet and activity — and it returns your five-year risk of developing type 2 diabetes as a count of real people, alongside the points you can change and the points you cannot.
Everything is worked out on your own device. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere or stored — that is by design, so you can be honest with the questions and still keep the answers to yourself.
General information to help you prepare for your GP — not a diagnosis, not personal medical advice.
Risk calculator · for your GP visit
A government calculator hands you a score and a flat ‘see your doctor’. This turns it into a count of real people who include you — and splits your score into the part you can’t change and the part that’s still yours to move. That split is what you take to your GP.
This is the official Australian Government AUSDRISK questionnaire — the same one your GP uses — reproduced here for education. It’s a 60-second quiz. It runs entirely in your browser; nothing you type leaves your device.
Your score, your risk-in-people, and your ‘could-change’ list — on one clean page for your next appointment.
AUSDRISK gives a score out of a possible maximum, and the score maps to a band: roughly 1 in 100 people at the lowest end, rising to about 1 in 7 at a score of 16–19 and around 1 in 3 at 20 or more, over the next five years. A score of 12 or more is the conventional line at which a GP would usually arrange a fasting blood glucose or HbA1c blood test.
The number is a frequency, not a verdict. A score of 1 in 7 means that out of seven people with your exact answers, roughly one would go on to develop type 2 diabetes over five years — and six would not. It cannot tell you which of those seven you are. Only a blood test can move you from a risk estimate to an actual reading.
The tool splits your points into what you can influence (waist, activity, diet, smoking) and what you cannot (age, family history, ancestry). A high score driven mostly by age and family history is a different conversation from one driven by modifiable factors — and that distinction is exactly what is useful to bring to your GP.
AUSDRISK is the screening tool named in the RACGP Guidelines for preventive activities in general practice (the Red Book), which recommends assessing type 2 diabetes risk in adults from age 40 (and earlier for some groups, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people). A score at or above the action threshold is the trigger for a confirmatory blood test, not a diagnosis on its own.
Lower waist cut-points apply for people of Asian and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background, because diabetes risk rises at a smaller waist measurement in these groups — the tool applies the correct cut-point for the ancestry you select.
Print or screenshot your result and take it to your GP. The most useful thing you can do is turn the score into a question: "My AUSDRISK score is X — does that mean I should have a blood test, and which one?" That puts the next decision where it belongs, with you and your GP.
If your score is driven by waist, activity or diet, those are the levers your GP can help you plan around. None of that is a reason to start or change any medicine on your own — that is always a conversation, with a blood result in front of you.
General information to help you prepare for your GP — not a diagnosis, not personal medical advice. This tool does not start, stop or change any medicine. If something is urgent, call 000.
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