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TyG Index
A calculated index based on fasting triglycerides and glucose that is used in research as a surrogate marker of insulin resistance; thresholds and performance vary across populations.
What is measured?
A calculated value derived from the component biomarkers named in this measure.
What the result represents?
Aden's range
What a raised or a low result can indicate
How Aden reads it as part of a system?
Aden reads this result alongside fasting glucose, fasting insulin, HbA1c, triglycerides and your previous measurements. It is treated as one part of the wider metabolic picture, not as a diagnosis on its own.
What changes between tests?
Which related markers give it context?
fasting glucose, fasting insulin, HbA1c, triglycerides
How to get this tested?
Evidence
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