[Insulin sensitivity and beta cell function in different glucose tolerance status].

The objective of this work was to investigate the insulin sensitivity (SI) and the beta cell function (BCF) in different glucose tolerance statuses in a comparative cross-sectional study. Eighty-four patients with different glucose tolerance statues were classified as normoglicemic-control group (NC) patients without family history of type 2 diabetes (DM2) or hypertension (HTN); normoglicemic-patients with familiar history of DM2 or HTN (FPDM2); patients with glucose intolerance (IGT group) and patients with diagnostic of DM2 <10 years (DM2 group). In each patient was obtained a clinical history and an oral glucose tolerance test (75 g) was performed.