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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Endocrinol Diabetes Obes. 2011 Apr;18(2):139–143. doi: 10.1097/MED.0b013e3283444b09

Table 1.

Criteria for a physiologic link between obesity and insulin resistance.

1. The factor should be elevated in the blood of obese people
2. Physiologic elevations of it’s blood levels should increase insulin resistance
3. Lowering of elevated blood levels should decrease insulin resistance