ea0037eje1 | The European Journal of Endocrinology Prize Lecture | ECE2015
Semple Robert
Insulin resistance is usually taken to mean a state in which insulin exerts a diminished blood glucose lowering effect. Insulin resistance is not a disease in itself, but is closely associated with pandemic diseases or tissue pathologies including type 2 diabetes, fatty liver, metabolic dyslipidemia, polycystic ovary syndrome and some cancers. It is also closely associated in the general population with obesity, and there is a widely prevalent view that obesity leads to insuli...