Discriminant Model for Insulin Resistance in Type 2 Diabetic Patients.

Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus tend to have insulin resistance, a condition that is evaluated using expensive methods that are not easily accessible in routine clinical practice. To determine the anthropometric, clinical, and metabolic parameters that allow for the discrimination of type 2 diabetic patients who have insulin resistance from those who do not. A cross-sectional analytical observational study was carried out in 92 type 2 diabetic patients.