'Good' cholesterol may be key to preventing diabetes

[Northerner]

MELBOURNE researchers will artificially raise levels of "good" cholesterol in diabetics, in a first human trial aiming to stop patients with "pre-diabetes" progressing to the full-blown disease.

While the link between heart disease, stroke and cholesterol have long been known, researchers are starting to uncover that "good" HDL cholesterol may also protect against diabetes.

Almost a quarter of Australian adults have either diabetes or the lifestyle-related impaired glucose metabolism condition known as "pre-diabetes".

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/vi...venting-diabetes/story-fni0fit3-1226813252169

 

[DeusXM]

If it turns out that HDL helps prevent diabetes, that might also explain then why prescribing statins to people without diabetes often tend to develop it afterwards.

 

[LeeLee]

How many GPs will read this and think about their current approach?