Endocrine Abstracts

The dyslipidaemia that commonly accompanies type 2 diabetes is characterised by raised plasma triglyceride, low HDL cholesterol and small, dense LDL particles. This syndrome has been shown to be caused principally by overproduction of large, triglyceride rich VLDL in the liver (VLDL1).Recent investigations have revealed further details of the metabolic abnormality underlying diabetic dyslipidemia. Studies using stable isotope tracers of apolip...