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Triglycerides respond to change faster than almost any other blood value. Alcohol, sugary drinks and weight are the thre...
HOMA-IR condenses your fasting glucose and insulin into a single number. You can work it out yourself from two values on...
Leptin tells your brain how much fat you carry. In obesity that value is high yet the signal appears to land less well,...
Prediabetes means a fasting glucose between 6.1 and 6.9 mmol/l. It is not diabetes, and it is precisely at this stage th...
Metabolic syndrome is not a disease but a cluster of five risk factors. Three or more abnormal factors count, and three...
In insulin resistance your cells respond less well to insulin and your pancreas makes more of it. Your fasting glucose s...
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