Inflammation and Insulin Resistance

Overview

Journal J Clin Invest

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2006 Jul 11

PMID 16823477

Citations 1775

Authors

Steven E Shoelson

Jongsoon Lee

Allison B Goldfine

Affiliations

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Abstract

Over a hundred years ago, high doses of salicylates were shown to lower glucose levels in diabetic patients. This should have been an important clue to link inflammation to the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes (T2D), but the antihyperglycemic and antiinflammatory effects of salicylates were not connected to the pathogenesis of insulin resistance until recently. Together with the discovery of an important role for tissue macrophages, these new findings are helping to reshape thinking about how obesity increases the risk for developing T2D and the metabolic syndrome. The evolving concept of insulin resistance and T2D as having immunological components and an improving picture of how inflammation modulates metabolism provide new opportunities for using antiinflammatory strategies to correct the metabolic consequences of excess adiposity.

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