TheBigNewt
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
They did a randomized trial in over 5,000 high risk Type 2 diabetics who had mild/moderately elevated triglycerides 60% were on statins. They added a triglyceride lowering med to half or them. Fenofibrate. Definitely brought triglycerides down, patients did no better. I don't think they did any worse but they didn't do any better either. I think the triglycerides were only average 160mg/dl. Not real high. ACCORD trial. 2010. NEJM.
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