Diabetic ketoacidosis is associated with very elevated levels of LDL cholesterol and triglycerides.

“basically what happens is their glucose level becomes very high they don't have enough insulin of course they get a bunch of electrolyte abnormalities but they present with very high levels of ketones this actually is an emergency so all the talk about ketosis being dangerous this is the example of where it is very dangerous it's life-threatening so what I didn't realize is I went back and looked it turns out a lot of these people have very elevated levels of LDL cholesterol total cholesterol now they also have elevated levels of triglyceride”