Table 3.

Esterification ratio (³H-cholesterol/³H-cholesteryl esters) in each point of the decay curves of labeled LDE injected into the Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) and control groups

	T1DM group (n=15)	Control group (n=16)	P value
0.08 h	29.4 ± 11.5	27.4 ± 6.9	0.60
1 h	40.3 ± 15.1	35.0 ± 10.3	0.35
2 h	48.8 ± 14.1	45.6 ± 8.9	0.55
4 h	51.1 ± 12.3	49.5 ± 11	0.83
8 h	61.7 ± 11.8	55.9 ± 9.2	0.23
24 h	65.7 ± 9.6	63.1 ± 9.1	0.51

Data are expressed as mean ± SD.