ABSTRACT
A 47-year-old man (BJ) came to my office, because his brother had suffered from a myocardial infarction at the age of 54.The cardiologist recommended his brother to lower LDL-cholesterol levels below 70 mg/dl, because he was overweight, and had low HDL-cholesterol levels and clinically overt type 2 diabetes. BJ did not remember his father’s clinical history because his parents were divorced when he was a child. His mother, however, suffered like his brother from type 2 diabetes. He did not smoke, apparently took two to three drinks per week, and there was no history of any other clinically relevant disease.
