insulin resistance
Biochemistry
noun
Impaired response to insulin resulting in elevated levels of glucose in the blood, originally described in diabetics receiving exogenous insulin and later recognized as a key component of type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in The British Medical Journal.
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