INS and Insulin resistance: In agreement with our findings, Campos et al. [29] found, in a study of 172 obese adolescents after long-term weight-loss therapy, that the reduction of visceral fat was an independent predictor of insulin resistance with positive correlations with total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), TGs, glucose, insulin, HOMA-IR, and hepatic enzymes.