Avoiding Insulin Resistance

This common condition increases the risk for type 2 diabetes, heart attack, and stroke. You may have it and not know it.

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Images © artpartner-images | Getty Images Insulin acts like a key, letting the essential, energy-providing sugar glucose into cells. One can think of insulin resistance like a sticky lock.

Left unchecked, the common condition known as insulin resistance can lead to prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. Each step of the way, the risk of heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular problems increases. We spoke to Anastassios Pittas, MD, MS, Chief of Endocrinology at Tufts Medical Center and a professor at Tufts University School of […]