This article reviews the negative potential effects of insulin resistance, such as the metabolic syndrome. This syndrome includes abdominal obesity, increased blood pressure, glucose intolerance, proinflammatory and prothrombotic states. Type 2 diabetes mellitus seems to be the consequence of a frank decompensation of glucose tolerance.
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