Table 2—

Basal levels before the FSIGT

	Control subjects			Type 2 diabetic subjects
	Basal	Alcohol	Basal	Alcohol
Glucose (mmol/l)	5.5 ± 0.2	5.6 ± 0.2	8.8 ± 0.8*	9.1 ± 0.8*
Insulin (pmol/l)	40 ± 7	142 ± 17	59 ± 7	67 ± 16
C-peptide (nmol/l)	0.549 ± 0.062	0.602 ± 0.119	0.615 ± 0.092	0.569 ± 0.079
Lactate (mmol/l)	0.637 ± 0.042	0.616 ± 0.050	0.782 ± 0.133	0.999 ± 0.145†
FFAs (mmol/l)	0.318 ± 0.044	0.359 ± 0.020	0.637 ± 0.094*	0.547 ± 0.112

Data are means ± SEM. No value was statistically different from the corresponding one of the test without alcohol (control study).
*
↵* P < 0.01;
†
↵† P < 0.05; type 2 diabetic vs. control subjects.