INS and diabetes mellitus: Despite II and IL+LL groups differed only in hypertriglyceridemia in univariate analysis, patients with hypertriglyceridemia (regardless of genotype) were different from those with normal triglyceride levels in the commonly expected aspects: longer time from diagnosis of diabetes; higher mean waist circumference and percentage of insulin treated patients; lower mean HDL levels (and also higher prevalence of low HDL).