Insulin Resistance After Renal Transplantation
Response to de Vries and Bakker
- Jøran Hjelmesæth, MD12,
- Karsten Midtvedt, MD, PHD2,
- Trond Jenssen, MD, PHD2 and
- Anders Hartmann, MD, PHD2
- 1Medical Department, Vestfold Central Hospital, Tønsberg, Norway
- 2Department of Medicine, Section of Nephrology, Rikshospitalet, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
We think that the question raised by de Vries and Bakker (1) in regard to our study (2) is appropriate. It is important to find the most convenient and adequate method to estimate insulin resistance (IR) in transplant recipients without necessarily carrying out an oral glucose tolerance test. Also, because the IR observed in transplant recipients is a common side effect of treatment with prednisolone, this issue is probably of …
