Insulin sensitivity / HOMA-IR
Reads: Insulin sensitivity
You want it high: strong insulin sensitivity is central to weight, energy and longevity.
What this marker reads
Insulin sensitivity — how readily cells respond to insulin, the linchpin of metabolic health.
What a named body publishes
Each line below is the sentence the issuing body wrote, carried with its own identifier. Nothing here interprets your result — it states what was published, for whom, and by whom.
HOMA-IR
“In 1,167 healthy adults from the population-based FINRISK/DILGOM cohort the upper 95th percentile of HOMA-IR was 1.9 (90% CI 1.8-2.0).”
Use of HOMA-IR to diagnose non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a population-based and inter-laboratory study · Diabetologia · 2017 DOI 10.1007/s00125-017-4340-1
“In 459 healthy adults from the population-based FIN-D2D cohort the upper 95th percentile of HOMA-IR was 2.0 (90% CI 1.9-2.2).”
Use of HOMA-IR to diagnose non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a population-based and inter-laboratory study · Diabetologia · 2017 DOI 10.1007/s00125-017-4340-1
Your laboratory reads your result against its own assay, and this page does not do that for it. What is above is what a named body published and for whom; the machinery this marker reads is set out on its pathway page, and the formulas witnessed on it are below.
The machinery behind it
What raises this marker and what it goes on to move — each edge carried with its own study — is set out in full on its pathway page: Insulin sensitivity →
Formulas that modulate it
Each formula page names this pathway and carries the study behind its claim.
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