German Diabetes Association: Clinical Practice Guidelines
Position Paper on Lipid Therapy in Patients with Diabetes
Mellitus
A Joint Statement by the Commission on Lipometabolism and The
Heart and Diabetes Working Group of the German Diabetes Society (DDG), The
Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism Section of The German Society of Endocrinology
(DGE), The Heart and Diabetes Working Group of the German Cardiology Society
(DGK) and The Joint Heart – Hormones – Diabetes Working Group of
the DGK, DGE and DDG
Authors
Klaus G. Parhofer
1
Department of Medicine IV, University Hospital, Ludwig Maximilians
University Munich, Munich, Germany
Andreas L. Birkenfeld
2
Department of Internal Medicine IV, University Hospital,
Tübingen, Germany
3
Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases (IDM) of
Helmholtz Zentrum München at the University of Tübingen, German
Centre for Diabetes Research, Germany
Wilhelm Krone
4
Center for Endocrinology, Diabetology and Preventive Medicine,
University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Michael Lehrke
5
Department of Internal Medicine I – Cardiology, Angiology and
Internal Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen,
Germany
Nikolaus Marx
5
Department of Internal Medicine I – Cardiology, Angiology and
Internal Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen,
Germany
Martin Merkel
6
Endocrinologikum Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Katharina S. Schütt
5
Department of Internal Medicine I – Cardiology, Angiology and
Internal Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen,
Germany
Andreas Zirlik
7
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Medical
University of Graz, Austria
Dirk Müller-Wieland
5
Department of Internal Medicine I – Cardiology, Angiology and
Internal Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen,
Germany
