Quantifying the improvement of surrogate indices of hepatic insulin resistance using complex measurement techniques.

We evaluated the ability of simple and complex surrogate-indices to identify individuals from an overweight/obese cohort with hepatic insulin-resistance (HEP-IR). Five indices, one previously defined and four newly generated through step-wise linear regression, were created against a single-cohort s...

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Main Authors: John G Hattersley, Matthias Möhlig, Michael Roden, Ayman M Arafat, Christian V Loeffelholz, Peter Nowotny, Jürgen Machann, Johannes Hierholzer, Martin Osterhoff, Michael Khan, Andreas F H Pfeiffer, Martin O Weickert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3382235?pdf=render