Do non-insulin-based insulin resistance indexes predict the severity of coronary artery disease?
Non-insulin-based insulin resistance indexes, particularly METS-IR and TyG-BMI, may serve as valuable non-invasive predictors of coronary artery disease severity.
TyG-BMI index is not only significantly associated with CAD severity, but is also an independent risk factor for multi-vessel CAD. The TyG index, TyG-BMI index, TG/HDL-C ratio, and METS-IR could be valuable predictors of CAD severity. Among the four non-insulin-based IR indexes, METS-IR had the highest predictive value, followed by TyG-BMI index.
Zhang et al. (Sat,) studied this question.