Serum levels of total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), lipoprotein cholesterol fractions (HDL-C and LDL-C) and fructosamine (FA) were determined in twenty-three children with Type I diabetes and twenty healthy children aged 4-14 years. Mean serum TC and HDL-C did not differ significantly between diabetic and nondiabetic children. Mean serum TG and FA showed a statistically significant increase in the diabetic group compared to healthy children. It is interesting to note that extremely high FA values had never been reported in the literature before were obtained for the Turkish diabetic children. Although we have observed relatively higher values for LDL-C/HLD-C ratio in diabetics, the difference between two groups was not statistically significant.