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Insulin Resistance

"Insulin Resistance" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Diminished effectiveness of INSULIN in lowering blood sugar levels: requiring the use of 200 units or more of insulin per day to prevent HYPERGLYCEMIA or KETOSIS.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Insulin Resistance" by people in this website by year, and whether "Insulin Resistance" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 263 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 19 publications in 2012
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