STUDY ON INSULIN RESISTANCE IN NORMAL WEIGHT INDIVIDUALS – HOSPITAL BASED CROSS SECTIONAL DESCRIPTIVE STUDY

Abstract

Background: The increasing prevalence of obesity becomes main factor for epidemic of various metabolic diseases, causing massive health and socioeconomic burden worldwide. Accurate assessment of insulin resistance helps in identifying individuals at increased risk of these diseases and may help target preventive and therapeutic efforts more effectively. Hence we aimed to evaluate the prevalence of insulin resistance (IR) in normal weight individuals in Indian population and also whether triglyceride index and various other factors including waist hip ratio, fasting insulin can be used as surrogate markers for identifying insulin resistanc