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Diabetes Care 29:2300-2304, 2006
DOI: 10.2337/dc05-2235
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Pathophysiology/Complications
Original Article

Cholesterol Absorption and Synthesis in Children With Type 1 Diabetes

Mikko Järvisalo, MD, PHD1, Olli Raitakari, MD, PHD2, Helena Gylling, MD, PHD3 and Tatu A. Miettinen, MD, PHD4

1 Centre for Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
2 Department of Clinical Physiology, Turku University Central Hospital, Turku, Finland
3 Department of Clinical Nutrition, University of Kuopio and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
4 Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Tatu A. Miettinen, MD, Biomedicum Helsinki C4 22, P.O. Box 700, FIN-00029 HUS. E-mail: tatu.a.miettinen{at}helsinki.fi

OBJECTIVE—The levels of the surrogate markers of cholesterol absorption (cholestanol and plant sterols) and synthesis (cholesterol precursors) in serum have suggested that in adult type 1 diabetes, cholesterol absorption is high and synthesis is low compared with type 2 diabetic or control subjects. Accordingly, these findings were further studied in children with type 1 diabetes.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—Forty-eight children with diabetes were compared with 79 age- and sex-matched control subjects. The serum ratios of cholesterol absorption and synthesis markers were measured with gas-liquid chromatography. The study population was divided into triads (combining the two lowest triads) by serum cholestanol ratios of the control subjects indicating low to high cholesterol absorption efficiency.

RESULTS—The ratios of the absorption and synthesis markers were similar in case and control subjects, and they were negatively related to each other in control subjects, being less consistent in diabetic patients. Thus, high cholesterol absorption was associated with low synthesis. Plant sterol ratios increased significantly with increasing cholestanol triads in both groups, but the values in the lowest triads were higher in case versus control subjects.

CONCLUSIONS—Homeostasis between cholesterol absorption and synthesis is maintained in control children and somewhat less consistently in those with diabetes. The higher plant sterol ratios in diabetic versus control subjects in the lowest cholestanol triads suggest that cholesterol absorption is higher in children with diabetes versus control subjects but only within the range of low cholesterol absorption.

Abbreviations: GLC, gas-liquid chromatography • STRIP, Special Turku Coronary Risk Factor Intervention Project for children


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