How To Manage Insulin Resistance When You Are Hiv Positive

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diet for insulin resistance

What can I do with my diet to get around insulin resistance? Should I stop eating carbs?...

Response from Cade Fields-Gardner M.S., R.D.

The Cutting Edge

Reducing the problem of insulin resistance with diet is most safely done with a typical "diabetic diet." In this diet you do not have to stop eating carbohydrates. But you should count up the servings of carbohydrate (mostly in grains,... Read more »

glucose tolearnce or insulin resistance test

Hello!I wonder if you can clarify something for me: I asked my doctor for an insulin resistance test and glucose tolerance test recommended to help determine the cause of my new found truncal obesity and addition of 7 inches to my waistline...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Can you provide some more details about your HIV status and which HIV drugs you are on and family history of diabetes so that I can provide a better answer? KH... Read more »

Follow up to your advice to have a glucose tolearnce or insulin resistance test

Hello, Dr. Moyle,I wonder if you can clarify something for me: I asked my doctor for an insulin resistance test and glucose tolerance test recommended by you to help determine the cause of my new found truncal obesity and addition of 7 inches to my...

Response from Graeme Moyle, M.D.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

Several studies (your Doctor may be familiar with one by Carr et al, another by Hadigan et al, there are also AACTG recommendations by Dube et al) have shown that for people with HIV a random or fasting glucose only pick ups up a minority of people... Read more »

What exactly are the symptoms of high insulin, insulin resistance and very high normal glucose levels?

What are the symptoms of insulin resistance and very high normal glucose levels? On that HgB 1a (?) test that gives you the three month average for your glucose, I was at 5.9 with 6 being the highest level for a non diabetic. Am awaiting results of...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Most patients with insulin resistance and no frank diabetes are relatively symptom free (even with a high insulin). I could provide some more specifics depending on your HIV status and which HIV drugs you are taking. KH... Read more »

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