APOB and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Further, when ApoB pool sizes were expressed on a per-particle basis (that is, in nmol/l allowing for the difference in molecular weight of ApoB-48 and ApoB-100), it was clear that across the 8 h of the postprandial period ApoB-48-containing lipoproteins in the VLDL density interval were a much higher proportion of the total VLDL present in the individuals with type 2 diabetes (at 44%) than in the control individuals (at 25%) (ESM Table 2).