ESPE Abstracts

Background: Triglyceride glucose (TyG) index, a product of fasting triglyceride and glucose, was widely used as an alternative tool for identifying insulin resistance in adults but not in children. Recent study in children showed association between the TyG index and HOMA-IR and a usefulness of TyG index as a surrogate marker of insulin resistance among adolescents.Objective: To evaluated the potential role of the TyG index as a predictor of impaired glu...