Ninety-five nonobese, nonketotic subjects were divided into five groups (one normal and
four with varying degrees of glucose intolerance) according to their plasma glucose
responses during an oral glucose tolerance test. These five groups were then compared on
the basis of their insulin response during the oral glucose tolerance test and on the ability of
exogenously infused insulin to limit hyperglycemia during a continuous infusion of glucose
and insulin, while endogenous insulin was inhibited by the infusion of epinephrine and …