Hypertriglyceridaemia in diabetes.
Smellie WS
Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital, Bishop Auckland DL14 6AD. info@smellie.com
Mild hypertriglyceridaemia is common in diabetes, but patients with newly presenting or poorly controlled diabetes may have a quantitatively different syndrome of gross hypertriglyceridaemia, which should be treated by optimising glycaemic control before use of lipid lowering drugs.
Published 15 December 2006 in BMJ, 333(7581): 1257-60.
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