What is the prognosis for insulin resistance?
Since insulin resistance is a condition that precedes the appearance of symptoms of a number of different disorders, its prognosis depends in part on the patient’s age, ethnicity, family history, and severity of any current health problems. Some patients diagnosed with insulin resistance eventually develop type 2 diabetes, but it is not yet known why the others do not; for example, some patients do not develop diabetes in spite of a high degree of insulin resistance. What is known at present is that weight reduction and exercise can control or even reverse insulin resistance in many people. Source: The Gale Group. Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
