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Insulin resistance: a chicken that has come to roost.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 18 Nov 1999
Reaven G M
Abstract excerpt
Insulin-mediated glucose disposal varies approximately 10-fold in apparently healthy human beings. Insulin (I)-resistant individuals can remain glucose tolerant if the pancreas compensates for this defect by secreting large amounts of I. Type 2 diabetes develops when I-resistant persons cannot sustain this state of compensatory hyperinsulinemia (increases I). However, the ability of increases I to prevent...
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