Some determinants of postprandial lipaemia in Nigerian diabetic and non-diabetic subjects

The efficiency of clearance of plasma triacylglycerols (TAG) after fatty meals in non-diabetic Caucasian subjects is believed to determine the plasma level of high-density-lipoproteins-cholesterol (HDL-C). It is unknown if this observation holds in diabetic subjects and in other racial groups. In assessing the factors that determine TAG responses to acute fat loading in a tropical African population with a low prevalence of atherosclerotic disease, twenty (nine obese) non-insulin-dependent diabetic (NJDDM) patients with optimal glycaemic control and twelve (six obese) age-matched non-diabetic subjects were given meals containing