Nutritional status and plasma lipids in diabetic subjects

The aim of the present work was to determine and analyse the nutritional status and plasma lipid levels in diabetic and control subjects dependent on the type of lipidemia. The investigations involved four groups: controls with normal lipidemia, diabetic (NIDDM) subjects with normal lipidemia, persons with hyperlipidemia type IV, and without diabetes mellitus, and diabetic subjects with hyperlipidemia type IV. The values for the concentrations of plasma triacylglycerol, cholesterol, phospholipids and HDL-phospholipids were significantly higher in both diabetic groups than in controls. The values for the relative amount and concentration of HDL-cholesterol were significantly lower in diabetics than in the control groups.