INS and diabetes mellitus: Several different diagnostic sets of criteria exist: from the World Health Organization (Alberti and Zimmet, 1998), from the International Diabetes Federation [IDF] (2015), from the European Group for the study of Insulin Resistance (Balkau and Charles, 1999), the National Cholesterol Education Programme Adult Treatment Panel III (Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults, 2001), as well as from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (Einhorn et al., 2003).