Relevance Non-HDL Cholesterol in Patients With Diabetes

The following case illustrates how failure to consider the importanceof non-HDL cholesterol may result in the undertreatment of patientswith diabetes.

R.R. is a 55-year-old man with a recent diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. He was previously noted to have impaired fasting glucose, for which he was prescribed a program of weight reduction and increased physical activity, as well as hypertension (140/85 mmHg), for which he was treated with an angiotensin receptor blocker. However, lifestyle changes are extraordinarily difficult for most people, and R.R. remained sedentary and obese ( BMI 39 kg/m²). His fasting bloodglucose level at diabetes diagnosis was 9.8mmol/l.

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