- Guideline
- Endocrinology
- 2017 Clinical practice guidelines for dyslipidemia of Korean children and adolescents
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Jung Sub Lim, Eun Young Kim, Jae Hyun Kim, Jae-Ho Yoo, Kyung Hee Yi, Hyun Wook Chae, Jin-Ho Choi, Ji Young Kim, Il Tae Hwang; the Committee of Dyslipidemia of Korean Children and Adolescents on behalf of Korean Society of Pediatric Endocrinology (KSPE)
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Clin Exp Pediatr. 2020;63(12):454-462. Published online November 25, 2020
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Question: How are children and adolescents with dyslipidemia treated and managed in Korea?
Finding: 2017 guidelines recommend to measure nonfasting non-HDL-C as a screening test and introduce new diet methods: Cardiovascular Health Integrated Lifestyle Diet (CHILD)-1, CHILD-2-low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and CHILD-2-triglyceride. Statin is the only drug approved in children older than 10 years.
Meaning: New clinical practice guidelines for treating and managing dyslipidemia of Korean children and adolescents are provided. |
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- Review Article
- Endocrinology
- Effects of early menarche on physical and psychosocial health problems in adolescent girls and adult women
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Jae-Ho Yoo
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Clin Exp Pediatr. 2016;59(9):355-361. Published online September 21, 2016
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The menarcheal age of Korean women has been rapidly decreasing for the last 50 years, and the average menarcheal age of women born in the 1990s is approaching 12.6 years. In addition, interest in early puberty has been increasing recently owing to the rapid increase in precocious puberty. Generally, out of concern for short stature and early menarche, idiopathic central... |
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- Case Report
- Two adolescent patients with coexistent Graves' disease and Moyamoya disease in Korea
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Chong Kun Cheon, Su Yung Kim, Jae-Ho Yoo
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Clin Exp Pediatr. 2014;57(6):287-291. Published online June 30, 2014
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Moyamoya disease is a cerebrovascular condition that results in the narrowing of the vessels of the circle of Willis and collateral vessel formation at the base of the brain. Although relationships between Graves' disease and cerebrovascular accidents in Moyamoya disease are obscure, the coexistence of the two diseases is noteworthy. Moyamoya disease has been rarely reported in adolescent patients with... |
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