Abstract:As the insulin assay is expensive and often unavailable in low income countries, the triglyceride-glucose index (TyG) is undergoing global evaluation as both a surrogate marker of insulin resistance (IR) and predictor of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Yet the value of the TyG in African-born populations is uncertain. Therefore, in 555 African-born Blacks currently living in the Washington, DC area (Age: 39±0.4y (mean±SE), Male: 65% (358/555), BMI: 27.7±0.2 kg/m2) we determined: 1) ability of TyG to predict the … Show more
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