ESPE Abstracts

Background: Children conceived after assisted reproductive technology (ART) with frozen embryo transfer (FET) are more often born large-for-gestational age (LGA) while children born after fresh embryo transfer (fresh-ET) are at risk of being small-for-gestational age (SGA). LGA or SGA children are at increased risk of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease later in life. The long-term cardio-metabolic health of children born after ART is scarcely explore...

Background: Turner syndrome (TS) is associated with increased arterial stiffness. To date, factors associated with the ontogeny of Turner arteriopathy remain unclear.Objective and hypotheses: To assess the associations of vascular biomarkers and the somatotrophic axis with arterial stiffness indices, and left heart size, in normotensive ‘dipper’ TS.Method: Sixty-one patients with uncomplicated normotentensive &#1...