INS and metabolic syndrome: Atherogenic dyslipidemia (AD), which is mainly characterized by plasma fasting and postprandial hypertriglyceridemia (postprandial hyperlipemia), low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and an increase of small and dense low-density lipoproteins (LDL), is frequently seen in individuals at high cardiovascular risk such as obese or overweight patients, type 2 diabetic (T2D) patients and subjects with a metabolic syndrome who share an insulin resistant state [2,3].