Acute Effect of Intensive Insulin Infusion on Intestinal Triglyceride-rich-lipoprotein-apoB48 Metabolism in Type 2 Diabetic Patients

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCD) is the first cause of morbidity and mortality at type 2 diabetes. The typical dyslipidemia that is associated with insulin resistance, which includes a postprandial elevation of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins (TRLs) with excess of intestinal triglyceride-rich-lipoprotein-apoB48 (TRL-apoB48), is felt to play an important role in the accelerated ASCD. The investigators\' objectives in this study are to determine whether an acute elevation of plasma insulin, secondarily to plasma insulin infusion, modulates the production and the clearance rates of intestinal TRL-apoB48 in type 2 diabetic patients in the fed state and to determine if this is a direct effect of insulin or an indirect effect due to the decrease of plasma FFA or the decrease of plasma glucose.