Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Cardiometabolic risk is linked to being small for gestational age (SGA, birthweight <-2SDS). Using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), an ‘omic signature in SGA catch-up children predicts pre-hypertension in adolescence. Suboptimal fetal growth (SFG) alone may be linked with greater cardiometabolic risk. Therefore, we focused on cardiometabolic risk in children born following pregnancies at higher risk f...