two groups drawn from among 247 healthy, normotensive nonobese subjects with normal
glucose tolerance. One group of 32 subjects was defined as having hyperinsulinemia
(serum insulin,> 2 SD above the mean) and then compared with 32 normoinsulinemic
subjects (serum insulin within 1 SD of the mean) matched for age (mean, 39 years), sex (22
men and 10 women), and body-mass index (24.7). The two groups had similar patterns of …