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History

The concept that insulin resistance may be the underlying cause of diabetes mellitus type 2 was first advanced by Sir Harold Percival Himsworth of the University College Hospital Medical Center in London in 1936.[1]

  1. Himsworth HP (1936). "Diabetes mellitus: its differentiation into insulin-sensitive and insulin-insensitive types". Lancet. 1: 127&ndash, 130.