Fasting hepatic insulin clearance reflects postprandial hepatic insulin clearance: a brief report.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateWe performed this study under the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. The Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University approved this study (approval number G161). We obtained informed consent from all of the participants using a procedure approved by the Ethics Committee. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This work was supported by a JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) Grant Number 22K07443(2022–2025), 19K07913(2019–2022), 16K08935 (2016–2019), a JSPS KAKENHI Fostering Joint International Research (A) Grant Number 19KK0402, a JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) Grant Number 26870373 (2014–2015), grants for young researchers from the Japan Association for Diabetes Education and Care (2013–2014), and Japan Diabetes Foundation (2013)."