BACKGROUND: Dyslipidemias, diabetes mellitus (DM), high blood pressure are important factors for development of the coronary artery disease (CAD), principal cause of death in the world. Several studies have demonstrated positive correlation between both LDL-C high plasma levels and HDL-C low concentrations and increased risk for cardiovascular diseases. OBJECTIVES: To establish the possible correlation between lipids, lipoproteins, apolipoproteins A-I and B, Lipoprotein(a) and microalbuminuria in subjects with and without diabetes mellitus type 2 and high blood pressure. MATERIAL AND METHOD: The subjects, with age range from 40 to 65 years, were divided into five groups: 1. control (normal subjects, n = 16); 2. HAS (subjects with high blood pressure, n = 12); 3. DM (normotensive and normoalbuminuric patients with diabetes mellitus type 2, n = 7); 4. DM + HASnAlb (hypertensive and normoalbuminuric patients with diabetes mellitus type 2, n = 18) and 5. DM + HASmAlb (hypertensive and microalbuminuric patients with diabetes mellitus type 2, n = 9). RESULTS: Concerning to the lipid profile statistical differences were observed for LDL-C between the average of the group 5 compared to the averages of the other groups; for triglycerides among the groups 2, 4 and 5 compared to the group 1. For the total cholesterol, HDL-C, Lp(a) and Apo A-I no significant difference was observed among the groups. Average values for Apo B for groups 4 and 5 presented significant difference compared to group 1. Positive correlation was observed between LDL-C and Apo B (r = 0,684); p < 0,0001) and HDL-C and Apo A-I (r = 0,374; p = 0,003), according to literature. CONCLUSION: Among all parameters assessment, LDL-C was the unique one that showed significant differences between the group 5, whose participants present both alterations (DM and HAS) besides the microalbuminuria, related to other groups studied. This comes to suggest that the association between the two diseases allied to microalbuminuria may contribute to the dyslipidemia aggravation.
Lipid profile; Apolipoproteins; Type 2 diabetes mellitus; High Blood Pressure
