High genetically predicted LDL level tied to lower type 2 diabetes risk, elevated CAD risk
High genetically predicted LDL was inversely associated with risk for incident diabetes, whereas the opposite trend was observed for CAD risk, researchers reported.“Individual genetic studies have yielded informative observations between LDL-C and type 2 diabetes,” Akshaya Ravi, an undergraduate researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and colleagues wrote.