Population
20 patients with idiopathic hypertriglyceridaemia with normal glucose tolerance, and 27 normal control…
Design
Case-control
Authors
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Hypothesis-generating for adipose insulin resistance in hypertriglyceridemia; should not yet change practice or guide therapy.
The study suggests that hypertriglyceridaemia in these patients is linked to insulin unresponsiveness in adipose tissue, leading to enhanced lipolysis and secondary changes in triglyceride transport.
Adams et al. (1974) studied this question.
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