ESPE Abstracts

Background: Lipid profiles of type 1 diabetic children are influenced by age, sex, BMI- and HbA1c-values. There is a discrepancy between increased cholesterol levels and the management required. Thus, 26% of patients have dyslipidemia but only 0.4% of them receive lipid lowering medication.Objective and hypothesis: To facilitate child-specific and diabetes-related cholesterol control, we developed a monitoring algorithm derived from population-based refe...

Background: Non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (non-HDL-C) has been shown to be a suitable predictor of cardiovascular risk.Objective and hypotheses: We aimed to investigate factors influencing non-HDL-C levels in children with type 1diabetes (T1D, registered at the German/Austrian DPV database, n=26358) in order to increase the rare use of lipid-lowering therapies. Recommendations for acceptable (<120 mg/dl), borderline-high (120&#150...