The findings were published in this week's issue of The Lancet . Steiner says that getting blood fat under control, even if the abnormalities seem minor, is essential in Type II diabetes. With this type of diabetes, your body can't produce enough insulin to break down all the sugar in your bloodstream. The treatment of lipid abnormalities in diabetes reduces the progress of coronary artery disease. Treatment of blood fats is critical for diabetics, says Dr. David A. Meyerson, a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins Medical School and a spokesman for the American Heart Association.
Diabetics get heart and blood vessel disease sooner than anyone else in our society.
Aggressive treatment of high cholesterol and blood lipids is essential, Meyerson adds. The earlier that aggressive measures are employed, the better we can protect this cross-section of our society from heart attacks, strokes and other diseases. But it's only one of several courses of therapy that must be pursued, Meyerson notes. Not only is cholesterol management critical to diabetics, but keeping blood pressure well-controlled and never smoking are critical features which must be, in the same breath, mentioned. What To Do For more information on fenofibrate, see the Drug Digest .