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“We concluded that modest amounts of ethanol in elderly men impaired glucose oxidation and caused insulin resistance, which because of lack of compensatory insulin secretion, resulted in deterioration of glucose tolerance.”
“ Ethanol and chlorpromazine, at anesthetic and pentobarbitol at sub-anesthetic concentrations are inhibitory to both basal and insulin stimulated rates of glucose oxidation.”