Abstract
This review deals with idiopathic chronic insulin resistance, (role of antagonists and antibodies, role of hemochromatosis and liver disease, role of peripheral tissue unresponsiveness, and treatment), insulin resistance associated with endocrine disturbances (Cushing''s syndrome, acromegaly), acute insulin resistance associated with acidosis and infections (diabetic acidosis, infection), and insulin resistance in different types of diabetes ("juvenile" diabetes, obese diabetes, lipoa-trophic diabetes, diabetes associated with Werner''s syndrome). There are 106 references.

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