A user-friendly program coded in PASCAL for the IBM PC has been developed to determine the etiology of impaired glucose tolerance using an intravenous glucose tolerance test (IVGTT). It makes use of the "minimal modeling technique," a method that has been shown to be adequate for the quantitative determination of insulin sensitivity and insulin resistance. Two models are used, the minimal model of glucose disappearance and the minimal model of insulin kinetics. The first model is described by two nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) which are solved numerically, and which yield the insulin sensitivity index SI. The second model is described by an ODE for which an explicit solution was obtained, and which yields the pancreatic responsivity parameters phi 1 and phi 2. The product SI.phi 2 can be used to segregate subjects into "good" and "low" tolerance types. The program provides best-fit plots along with numerical values of the parameters and their uncertainties, and requires little intervention from the user. The fact that it requires a noninvasive IVGTT as input and that it has been written for the ubiquitous IBM PC are added advantages.

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