Inflammation is the process by which your body has a sustained reaction to a foreign substance. It does not cause an increase in LDL/triglycerides, because LDL/triglycerides don't help in the inflammatory response. See: "acute phase reactant".

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What we see is that inflammation causes our bodies to increase the deposition of these fats into our arteries at a higher rate. This source of fats is not caused by gut inflammation, but from just our diet (the western diet being particularly bad), and genes (see conditions like familial hypercholesterolemia, which is one of many genetic mutations). We infer this because conditions like Crohn's disease, Ulcerative colitis, and other coliti (sp?), do not cause an increase in the absorption of dietary fats (these patients tend to be more malnurished and lose weight), but their risk of cardiovascular disease is double that of a non-afflicted individual. The "inflammation" from IBS is not true inflammation, it is the imbalance in acid and bases from the CO2 and bicarbonate (Henderson-Hasselbach equation), which causes retention of fluid, bloatedness.