Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Insulin resistance (IR) is a fundamental defect in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) which is reported to be associated with other components of the metabolic syndrome including obesity and atherogenic dyslipidaemia. Routine measurement of insulin resistance in clinical practice is not practical, but other routinely measured clinical variables could predict the presence of IR. We aimed to determine the association of IR with obesity indices and lipid parameters in ...