The high incidence of obesity among people with type II diabetes suggests a connection between the two conditions. Scientists have sought a link by studying insulin resistance, the trademark symptom of type II, or adult-onset, diabetes. But they still don’t know why cells in people with insulin resistance ignore insulin’s signals to process blood glucose for use by muscles and other tissues.
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