Article
Apolipoprotein E genotype is a determinant of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and of its response to a low-cholesterol diet in Type 1 diabetic patients with elevated urinary albumin excretion.
Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association - 1 Dec 1998
Blaauwwiekel E E, Beusekamp B J, Sluiter W J, Hoogenberg K, Dullaart R P
Abstract excerpt
The effect of the apolipoprotein (apo) E genotype on the lipoprotein response to a 1 year low cholesterol diet (200 mg cholesterol per day) was evaluated in 36 patients with Type 1 diabetes mellitus with albuminuria between 10 and 200 microg min(-1). Apo E genotype was characterized by polymerase...
Topics
- Adult
- Albuminuria
- Alleles
- Apolipoprotein A-I
- Apolipoprotein E3
- Apolipoprotein E4
- Apolipoproteins B
- Apolipoproteins E
- Cholesterol, Dietary
- Cholesterol, HDL
- Cholesterol, LDL
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Dietary Fats, Unsaturated