Why the study?
Is insulin resistance associated with subclinical atherosclerosis in individuals with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus?
Population
Individuals with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Insulin resistance may link to subclinical atherosclerosis only in non-diabetics; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective confirmation before clinical use.
Is insulin resistance associated with subclinical atherosclerosis in individuals with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus?
Insulin resistance is associated with imaging markers of subclinical atherosclerosis in non-diabetics, but this relationship is blunted or absent in patients with established type 2 diabetes.
Fakhrzadeh et al. (2015) studied this question.
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