The 1st World Congress on the Insulin Resistance Syndrome

the conference organizer, noted that it re-flects an endeavor to bring an under-standing of basic science into the clinical practice of medicine. Contributory causes of insulin resistance include obesity, sed-entary lifestyle, and many other charac-teristics and conditions. Handlesman noted that the syndrome has been as-signed International Classification of Disease (ICD)-9 code 277.7 as the dys-metabolic syndrome. Many aspects of the IRS are pharmacologically treatable when lifestyle modification is ineffective, and we need tools to determine which ap-proaches are appropriate for particular