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For 60-year-old men, having both obesity and blood sugar problems (but not just being obese or being obese with high insulin) is linked to their fat tissue not responding well to insulin to take in sugar.

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The study tested different combinations of obesity, high insulin, and high blood sugar in 60-year-old men and found that only the combination of obesity plus glucose intolerance (not obesity alone or with high insulin) reduced the ability of insulin to stimulate sugar use in fat tissue.

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