Why is my cholesterol important if i have diabetes?
Why is my cholesterol important if i have diabetes?
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Treating lipid, or cholesterol levels in diabetes is very important, because people with diabetes have very high rates of heart disease and stroke. And it's not so much that bad cholesterol levels are high in people with diabetes, it's the good cholesterol, or HDL levels are too low, and triglyciride levels, which are a measure of fat in the blood, are too high. But it's not the triglyciride levels that hurt you. It's really the fact that the good cholesterol is too low, and the bad cholesterol, or LDL cholesterol, may be a little bit high. But what it is, is abnormal. Those cholesterol particles are stickier, because of the presence of high blood sugar levels. And so people with Type 2 diabetes and Type 1, but mostly Type 2, have this very accelerated rate of heart disease. So we say, people with Type 2 diabetes, and include Type 1's in this too, 'cause we think it's also important, really need to have their cholesterol, their bad cholesterol, treated to be less than a hundred. And I really want people to know their LDL cholesterol. A lot of people know total, but I don't care about total. Total is the sum of the bad and the good. If your bad isn't very high and your good is too low, your total could be artificially low. So people need to know what is their LDL or bad cholesterol level, and it needs to be treated to less than a hundred. And if people have had heart disease already, it should be treated to less than seventy. So treatment of cholesterol levels is very important, and is actually different than in patients without diabetes.
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