ESPE Abstracts

Background: Patients with homozygous and compound heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) have markedly elevated plasma LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) from birth. If untreated, patients develop cardiovascular atherosclerosis resulting in death before the second decade of life. Medication and apheresis are only partially effective in reducing LDL-C levels, and do not significantly improve the prognosis. Liver transplantation (LT) can nearly normalize the cholesterol metabolism...

Background: Late preterm birth (defined as infants born between 34 and 36 weeks of gestational age) is increasing worldwide. Their postnatal growth has not been fully investigated.Objective and hypotheses: To identify the characteristics of postnatal growth and biochemical markers in late preterm infants.Method: Among 2014 children in the birth cohort study conducted from 2010, 51 children were born late preterm with birth weight a...