Re: Triglycerides and Diabetes

[Guest guest]

--could be hereditary. I work with a lady who is as thin as a rail

and eats only good food, no junk, yet her tri's are through the

roof. It runs in her family. She is now taking meds for it. She s

not diabetic.

Madge

- In diabetes_int@y..., " Janie " <usns@r...> wrote:

> For heavens sakes, now my husband has been told his Triglycerides

are too

> high (307) and he has to get on medication (Gemfibrozil). Strange.

He eats

> practically no-to-low carbs, is not overweight, keeps his bg's

under control

> wonderfully, and his tri's are too high????

>

> Does this go with Diabetes??

>

> Janie (in rainy Colorado where the mornings are nice and cool!

FINALLY!)

[Guest guest]

---P.S. to my last post. My mother was diabetic but never had a

cholesterol problem of any kind.

madge

In diabetes_int@y..., Madge910@a... wrote:

> --could be hereditary. I work with a lady who is as thin as a rail

> and eats only good food, no junk, yet her tri's are through the

> roof. It runs in her family. She is now taking meds for it. She s

> not diabetic.

> Madge

>

> - In diabetes_int@y..., " Janie " <usns@r...> wrote:

> > For heavens sakes, now my husband has been told his Triglycerides

> are too

> > high (307) and he has to get on medication (Gemfibrozil).

Strange.

> He eats

> > practically no-to-low carbs, is not overweight, keeps his bg's

> under control

> > wonderfully, and his tri's are too high????

> >

> > Does this go with Diabetes??

> >

> > Janie (in rainy Colorado where the mornings are nice and cool!

> FINALLY!)

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http://www.americanheart.org/Heart_and_Stroke_A_Z_Guide/trigly.html

http://www.plainsense.com/Health/Heart/triglycerides.htm

http://www.healthwell.com/healthnotes/Concern/High_Triglycerides.cfm

I suggest you read about this search engine, and put your questions into

it

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[Guest guest]

yes. What is he eating since he is low carbing? Steak, hamburger, etc.?

He might talk to his doc about Niaspan.

Triglycerides and Diabetes

> For heavens sakes, now my husband has been told his Triglycerides are too

> high (307) and he has to get on medication (Gemfibrozil). Strange. He eats

> practically no-to-low carbs, is not overweight, keeps his bg's under

control

> wonderfully, and his tri's are too high????

>

> Does this go with Diabetes??

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> Janie (in rainy Colorado where the mornings are nice and cool! FINALLY!)

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[Guest guest]

I have a co-worker like that. He is physically fit, eats properly and never

strays and his stays in the 400's. Mine was 598 but after starting Lopid and

I am a horrible eater mine is down to 179. My co-workers doctor told him it

is from his family history because the all have high tri's that meds dont

bring down and they all eat right, are not overweight and workout.

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 8/10/01 8:54:33 PM Central Daylight Time, usns@...

writes:

<<

For heavens sakes, now my husband has been told his Triglycerides are too

high (307) and he has to get on medication (Gemfibrozil). Strange. He eats

practically no-to-low carbs, is not overweight, keeps his bg's under control

wonderfully, and his tri's are too high????

Does this go with Diabetes??

Janie (in rainy Colorado where the mornings are nice and cool! FINALLY!)

>>

Janie

He may have just been swimming in the wrong gene pool and has the liver that

has a mind of its own. We could be related as I have one of those

livers.....its a genetic thing not necessarily a diet thing according to my

endo.

ressy

who wants another gene pool

[Guest guest]

> For heavens sakes, now my husband has

> been told his Triglycerides are too

> high (307) and he has to get on medication

> (Gemfibrozil). Strange. He eats

> practically no-to-low carbs, is not

> overweight, keeps his bg's under control

> wonderfully, and his tri's are too high????

> Does this go with Diabetes??

Yes, it sure does, Janie.

Diabetes is said to be the most frequent cause of secondary

dyslipidemia (malfunctioning fat metabolism) which includes elevated

triglycerides. Apparently it works the other way around too, and a

primary dyslipidemia can disturb the carbohydrate metabolism.

We are told here that before blood is drawn to test for high

trigycerides, the patient should be on " normal " nutrition for at

least one week. You can be pretty sure that means eating meals with

a " standard " protein, fat and carbohydrate relationship (in Germany,

15% protein, 30% fat and 55% carbohydrate) and 0% alcohol. Ideally,

the patient should have eaten nothing at all for 10-12 hours before

the blood sample is taken.

That is the way mine is measured, but then I eat that way all the

time and I eat nothing after 7 p.m. before the 7 a.m. test. I can

well imagine that abnormal results will be obtained if the patient

has been having a diet high in fat before the blood sample is taken,

as your 'low-carb' husband seems to have been.

Janie, maybe your husband's doctor should be told that he is eating

the way he is, so that the results of the test can be interpreted

correctly. If he wasn't told then I would guess that the result is

not all that strange after all!

(Of course, the triglycerides and cholesterol can be measured

postprandial, too, and if the results are normal then there is

apparently no need for the precautions I just mentioned.)

The limits applied here are: over 150 mg/dl is suspicious, over 200

mg/dl requires treatment. Don't forget though that Gemfibrozil is the

stuff that should NOT be taken together with Lipobay!

I can't resist claiming that exercise and a high-vegetable diet would

probably get the triglycerides down faster than the Gemfibrozil will

but I can't back that up with any science at the moment!

Thornton

Pforzheim, Germany

[Guest guest]

Sam,

I haven't seen a post from you lately. Are you alright? Please let me hear

from you.

Tootie