Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is a type of metabolic disease, characterized by high levels of glucose in the blood and insufficient production or efficiency of insulin within the body, type two diabetes is the most common of diabetes mellitus, a metabolic condition characterized by insulin resistance and failure of pancreatic islet β cells, which leads to It leads to high blood sugar, which has very serious repercussions, especially its close association with fats and its effect on heart disease and atherosclerosis, as the blood lipid status of patients with type two diabetes was measured by assessing the levels of a number of biochemical variables, as the necessary data were collected. The study included 30 diabetics in the city of Hawija, in addition to a control sample that included 15 healthy non-diabetic subjects. The results showed that the averages of the studied variables amounted to 24.433 kg / m² for body mass index, and 141.23, 186.33, 187.33, 30.466, 194.333, and 39.067 mg/ dL for fasting blood sugar, total cholesterol, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein, and low-density lipoprotein. and very low-density lipoprotein, respectively, in the group of patients with type two diabetes