title: Possible link between a low prevalence of cardiovascular disease and mild dyslipidaemia: a study in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes.
abstract: In 98 Japanese patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus, serum total cholesterol, triglyceride, high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), free fatty acid (FFA), and apolipoproteins (apo) A-I, A-II, B, C-II, C-III, and E were determined. The data were compared with those in 47 normolipidaemic normal controls. The total cholesterol value of the diabetic patients was also compared to that of a general population (n = 2227). The diabetic patients were separated into those with cardiovascular disease (n = 20) and without it (n = 78) and a comparison of clinical characteristics and dyslipidaemia was also performed. The diabetic patients had slightly but significantly higher FFA, LDL-C, apo B, C-II, C-III, E, and B/A-I, and lower apo A-I and A-II compared to the normal controls. The total cholesterol level of the diabetic patients (5.17 +/- 0.96 mmol-1) was not significantly higher than that of the general population (5.12 +/- 0.91 mmol-1). By multivariate stepwise discriminant analyses, only total cholesterol significantly discriminated the patients with and without cardiovascular disease. In Japanese patients with Type 2 diabetes, a diabetic population with a very low prevalence of cardiovascular disease, high total cholesterol is a risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease. Nevertheless, a markedly low prevalence of cardiovascular disease in Japanese with Type 2 diabetes compared to Caucasian counterparts may partly be due to the mildness of dyslipidaemia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Geriatrics, School of Medicine, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aizawa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tozuka
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ishihara
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Okada
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shigematsu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Komatsu
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hiramatsu
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamauchi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001053:Apolipoproteins / Q000097:blood; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000097:blood* / Q000150:complications*; D005230:Fatty Acids, Nonesterified / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006442:Glycated Hemoglobin / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D008055:Lipids / Q000097:blood*; D008074:Lipoproteins / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D001053:Apolipoproteins; D002784:Cholesterol; D005230:Fatty Acids, Nonesterified; D006442:Glycated Hemoglobin; D008055:Lipids; D008074:Lipoproteins; D014280:Triglycerides