Lipid profile in type 2 patients with diabetes from Tlemcen: A Western Algerian population

In Algeria, diabetes mellitus is a public health problem and it is strongly associated with lower levels of physical activity, increasing obesity rates, an ageing population, unhealthy lifestyle and eating habits. In this study, we performed a transversal investigation on 100 patients with diabetes type 2 and 10 controls with no clinical history of diabetes. A questionnaire was developed with the anthropometric data and biochemical following values: fasting blood glucose (GLU), total cholesterol (TCHOL), triglycerides (TRG), high-density lipoproteins (HDL-C) and glycosylated hemoglobin (GHbA1c) and calculated levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C). We describe further the characteristics of lipid parameters in the study population. To this end, we analyzed the data using descriptive statistics by mean and standard deviation. According to our results, a female predominance was recorded in our population with a high breakdown for the age group between 51 and 71 years. The average blood glucose was 206 mg/dl, and the average glycated hemoglobin was 8.2%. The majority of diabetic patients had a lipid profile considered normal. 60% of the patients had cholesterol values less than 200 mg/dl; 57.7% had TG values less than 150 mg/dl; 54% had HDL-C values more than 40 mg/dl and 87.5% had LDL-C values less than 160 mg/dl. Our study shows that the lipid profile of a diabetic population of the Tlemcen region is normal and has no lipid abnormality. It is different from that in the West, where the lipid profile is lower but at inferior proportions.