Participants were further stratified into 'hypertriglyceridemia' and normal triglyceride levels subgroups.<h4>Results</h4>Ingestion of the KEβHB beverage led to a significantly higher AUC for apo C-II (<i>p</i> = 0.023) in the overall cohort. The gene discussed is APOC2; the disease is hypertriglyceridemia.