International Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Research
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 1

Role of Lipids in type 2 diabetes mellitus for causation of coronary artery disease

  • Author:
  • Smita S. Swami1, Anuradha M Kanhere2, Sanjay C Swami3,
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 134 to 137

1Assistant Professor, D. Y. Patil School of Medicine, Navi Mumbai,

2Additional Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, T. N. Medical College, Mumbai, India

3Assistant Professor, T. N. Medical College, Mumbai, India

*Corresponding Author: Email: sanjviews@yahoo.co.in

Online published on 2 January, 2019.

Abstract

Diabetes is characterized by chronic hyperglycemia and disturbances of carbohydrate, protein and lipid metabolism. The present study was undertaken to research the association between serum lipid profile, its abnormalities and the increase risk of coronary artery disease. The study compromised of total 60 subjects out of which 30 were diabetic pateints with T2D and 30 healthy indiviuals, both from the age group 35–50 years. The results indicated that there was a considerable increase in the lipid and its parameters.

Keywords

Diabetes mellitus, HDL-c, LDL-c, Lipid profile, Total cholesterol, VLDL-c