What is insulin resistance

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We all know that insulin is a kind of drug. Generally, insulin resistance occurs in obese people or people with family inheritance of hypertension and hyperglycemia. At the same time, it may be accompanied by arteriosclerosis. Now let's popularize what is insulin resistance.

What is insulin resistance

First, insulin resistance refers to a variety of reasons for insulin to promote glucose uptake and utilization efficiency decline, the body compensatory secretion of excessive insulin to produce hyperinsulinemia, in order to maintain the stability of blood glucose. Insulin resistance can easily lead to metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes.

Second: in the 1950s, yallow et al. Used radioimmunoassay to measure the plasma insulin concentration, and found that patients with lower plasma insulin level had higher insulin sensitivity, while those with higher plasma insulin level were not sensitive to insulin, so they put forward the concept of insulin resistance.

Third: there is no effective treatment for general primary or hereditary insulin resistance, but for some high-risk groups with insulin resistance, such as first-degree relatives with a family history of diabetes, people with a family history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia, low birth weight infants at birth, or people with a history of intrauterine malnutrition, we should pay special attention to avoid obesity in their postnatal life, so as to avoid obesity as much as possible To prevent the occurrence of insulin resistance.

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Since insulin is a kind of drug, why does insulin resistance occur? Some are caused by genetic factors, some are caused by obesity or some diseases, which may cause insulin resistance.