Lipids profile and some anthropometric measurements in diabetic and non-diabetic peritoneal dialysis patients

Abstract

Lipids profile and some anthropometric measurements in diabetic and non-diabetic peritoneal dialysis patientsIn chronic renal failure some lipid disturbances are observed even in early stage of the disease (2,4,5,9). They are characterized mainly by elevated plasma levels of total cholesterol and triglycerides (1, 5). The other disturbance which occurs in renal failure is an abnormal level of apolipoprotein (3). The intensification of described plasma lipids disturbances is raising with the progress of the disease. Renal dyslipidemia was first described in hemodialyzed patients (1), but some abnormalities in lipid profile are observed in peritoneal dialyzed patients as well (4, 9). Dialysis can moderately attenuate dyslipidemia, but its character remains unchanged.