CORD SERUM LIPID AND LIPOPROTEIN‐CHOLESTEROL VALUES IN NORMAL AND BETAMETHASONE‐TREATED NEWBORNS OF VARYING GESTATIONAL AGE

Abstract

Cord serum total cholesterol, very low density lipoprotein[VLDL]-, low density lipoprotein[LDL]-, high density lipoprotein[HDL]-cholesterol and triglyceride were determined in 30 AGA [appropiate for gestational age] infants and 35 SGA [small for gestational age] infants born between the .gtoreq. 37th .ltoreq. 42th wk of gestation and in 26 AGA infants born between the .gtoreq. 33th < 37th wk of gestation. In SGA infants significantly higher VLDL-cholesterol and triglyceride values vere found than in AGA infants. In AGA infants < 37 wk of gestation total cholesterol, LDL- and HDL-cholesterol concentrations were higher than in AGA infants .gtoreq. 37 wk of gestation. In 10 betamethasone-treated AGA infants < 37 wk of gestation HDL-cholesterol was higher than in 16 untreated AGA infants < 37 wk of gestation. [Familial hypercholesterolemia and neonatal hypertriglyceridemia are discussed.].