Study to Determine the Utility of Novel Technologies and Biomarkers to Measure Human Response to Rosiglitazone Maleate

Insulin resistance (IR) is common in many metabolic disorders and predisposes an individual to Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM), the Metabolic Syndrome and coronary atherosclerosis. Non-diabetics with IR are at risk, but can be difficult to diagnose. A major problem with the use of IR as a predictor or marker of disease is the lack of a simple, robust test that can be used to quantify this parameter in a wide variety of clinical situations. The current 'gold standard' methods for measuring insulin sensitivity, such as the hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic (H-E) clamp, are complex, time consuming and costly. Alternative, simpler methods, such as the Homeostasis Model Assessment (HOMA-IR) score, may be less accurate and are not widely accepted.