SERUM LIPOIDS IN DIABETES

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Abstract
For 79 diabetic patients without dehydration or acidosis, 130 analyses of blood serum showed cholesterol normal in 42, high in 9, low in 28; closely correlated with phospholipid, less exactly with fatty acid, and apparently unrelated to the severity of diabetes, fat in the diet or arteriosclerosis. Hypocholesterolemia was associated with malnutrition. Mild hypercholesterolemia, observed in obese [female][female], seemed related to the obesity rather than to diet. Severe hypercholesterolemia was frequently referable to complications, but was also found in a group of patients with instability of vasomotor reactions and of carbohydrate metabolism. The reasons for the low incidence of hypercholesterolemia in the whole series and for its appearance in individual cases are discussed.