[On the clinical importance of secondary hyperlipoproteinemia in old age (author's transl)]

The pathological aspects and clinical importance of secondary forms of hyperlipoproteinemia in old age are discussed by the author in his present review article. Consideration is first given to the relations between hyperlipoproteinemia and diabetes mellitus. Further, the author deals with secondary hyperlipoproteinemia consequent upon renal diseases, pancreatitis, alcoholism, endocrinal diseases, liver diseases, and use of certain drugs. Finally, therapeutic problems of secondary hyperlipoproteinemia, which hold in old age just as in any other, are also treated briefly.