PURPOSE To analyze the prevalence of insulin resistance, according to different biochemical and anthropometric measurements in women with polycystic ovary syndrome. METHODS A total of 189 patients with polycystic ovary syndrome were retrospectively analyzed. Insulin resistance diagnosis was performed using fasting insulin, HOMA-IR, QUICKI, insulin sensibility index and glucose/fasting insulin...

This study assessed the relationship between insulin, glucose, body mass index, and cardiovascular risk factors in a sample of 489 white premenopausal women. All women were participants in the Healthy Women Study (University of Pittsburgh) and had normal blood pressure and fasting blood glucose of less than 140 mg/dl and a 2-hour value after a 75-g glucose load of less than 200 mg/dl. Both body...

Impaired glucose tolerance influences the prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but this mechanism is still not fully understood. We investigated the impact of the fasting serum levels of insulin and adiponectin on the prognosis of HCC and its recurrence. One hundred and forty patients with newly diagnosed HCC were enrolled in the prognosis study. Their fasting serum levels of insulin an...

BACKGROUND Insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia are important risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD) and cardiovascular event (CVE). However, their independent relationship to new CVE in patients with normal glucose tolerance (NGT) and CAD is not known. METHODS AND RESULTS Subjects of this 3-year observational study were 102 patients with CAD. Plasma glucose and insulin concentrati...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance in Thai women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). MATERIAL AND METHOD Oral glucose tolerance tests were performed in 70 PCOS women. Blood was taken for the measurement of fasting insulin, 2-hr postprandial insulin, lipid profiles, testosterone and sex hormone binding globulin RESULTS The prevalence of meta...

Background: Many clinicians recommend low-salt diets for lowering blood pressure but there may be unintended consequences such as worsening insulin resistance.Aim: This paper aimed to find human clinical studies looking at on markers of glucose and insulin.Methods: We reviewed PubMed using the search terms ‘sodium’, ‘insulin’ ‘insulin resistance’ found 23 testing showing negative harms or gluco...

Insulin autoimmune syndrome (IAS) is a rare cause of hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia characterized by antibodies to endogenous insulin without exposure exogenous insulin. In this report, we presented case with history fasting hypoglycemia. After work up and exlusion other causes such as insulinoma, hypogylcemic state the patient was considered have been induced etofenamate. Although IAS generally...

Purpose: To study the effect of Ganjiang Huangqin Huanglian Renshen Decoction (GHHRD) on intestinal microflora and insulin resistance (IR) in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) rats. 
 Methods: Streptozotocin (STZ) injection was used to establish a rat model T2DM. The T2DM rats were divided into 5 groups: control, T2DM, + low-dose traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), high-dose TCM, metformin g...

OBJECTIVE To test the utility of homeostasis model assessment (HOMA) in predicting insulin sensitivity [x10(- 4) min(-1)/(microIU/ml)] in children and to develop and compare two new prediction equations for insulin sensitivity in children using demographic and anthropometric measures in the presence or absence of fasting insulin. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We studied 156 white and African-Am...