Due to the association between insulin resistance (IR) and atherosclerosis, there is an interest in the development of techniques to evaluate insulin sensitivity (IS) in vivo. Fasting blood glucose, easy to use in study populations, has been used to evaluate IS and supplies a good evaluation of hepatic sensitivity, but not muscular sensitivity to insulin. HOMA is a mathematical model that predicts IS simply by measuring insulinemia and fasting blood glucose and shows good correlation with hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp method, considered […]