中国是世界上最早认识糖尿病的国家之一,消渴病是糖尿病的中医病名,在东汉以后就有广泛的文字记载,但受限于古代落后的自然科学,一直不能明确其确切的病理生理学情况。在西方国家中,自从1922年Banting发现胰岛素以来,人们一直就认为糖尿病仅仅是一种缺乏胰岛素的疾病。然而,十几年之后,Himsworth等人[1]就发现,不同类型的糖尿病患者使用胰岛素治疗后其疗效具有很大的差异性,当时他就提出了胰岛素敏感性的概念,认为糖尿病患 China is one of the earliest countries in the world to recognize diabetes. Diabetes is a traditional Chinese medicine name for diabetes. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a wide range of written records. However, limited to the ancient and backward natural sciences, it was not clear how its exact pathophysiology was . In Western countries, diabetes has been considered a mere lack of insulin since Banting discovered insulin in 1922. However, after more than a decade, Himsworth et al. [1] found that the effects of insulin therapy were significantly different among people with different types of diabetes. At that time, he put forward the concept of insulin sensitivity and thought that diabetes