Do you use the homeostatic model assessment (HOMA) to assess for insulin resistance and change your clinical management of patients?  

No. As insulin assays are not standardized nationally, glucose measurements are surprisingly variable across methods and institutions, single measurements of fasting glucose and insulin are somewhat quixotic, and as there is a loose relationship of HOMA measures in individuals and gold-standard meas...

I completely agree with Dr. @Buse. It doesn't help manage patients. You can get a pretty good idea about whether the patient has insulin resistance by assessing for the presence of associated clinical factors, e.g. obesity, HTN, high TG, and low HDL.   Medications obviously should be add...

I agree that one level may not be helpful but in patients at risk, its is helpful to assess further. I do get referrals for higher insulin . They do mostly have other factors of metabolic syndrome and A1C may not always be abnormal. I have seen blood sugar fluctuations in people with higher insulin ...