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ArticleJournal of the Endocrine Society2025

Serum Lipoprotein(a) and High-Sensitivity C-reactive Protein Correlate With Somatic Parameters Including MLPA Subgroups in Children With Prader-Willi Syndrome.

Pritam Biswas, Sudipta Banerjee, Paromita Bhattacharya, Krishanu Mukhoti, Moulibrata Sarkar, Subhankar Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Sahana

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Article in Journal of the Endocrine Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Pritam BiswasDepartment of Endocrinology, IPGME&R, Kolkata 700020, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1288-2923
Sudipta BanerjeeDepartment of Endocrinology, IPGME&R, Kolkata 700020, India.
Paromita BhattacharyaGenetic Service Unit, BRIC-NIBMG, PG-Polyclinic, Kolkata 700020, India.
Krishanu MukhotiDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, IPGME&R, Kolkata 700020, India.
Moulibrata SarkarDepartment of Radiodiagnosis, IPGME&R, Kolkata 700020, India.
Subhankar ChowdhuryDepartment of Endocrinology, IPGME&R, Kolkata 700020, India.
Pranab Kumar SahanaDepartment of Endocrinology, IPGME&R, Kolkata 700020, India.

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Abstract

Context: Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is 1 of the most common monochromosomal (15q11-13) causes of polygenic syndromic childhood obesity. Objectives: We primarily compare and correlate serum lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)], high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), and baseline clinical characteristics of genetically confirmed children with PWS at their GH treatment-naïve stage to their control groups. Secondary objectives were to correlate serum Lp(a) and hs-CRP concentration to multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification subgroups, body composition indices, sleep apnea parameters, and hepatic shear-stress by 2-dimensional shear wave elastography in children with PWS. Methods: A total of 32 genetically confirmed PWS children (age 5 to 18 years), 20 simple obesity children, and 20 healthy children as age-matched control groups were studied for the primary and secondary study objectives. Results: Lp(a) was higher in the study group as compared to the control group ( Conclusion: Serum Lp(a) as well as hs-CRP stand out to be the core independent risk factors along with their strong correlation with the other study parameters, which necessitates the role of future targeted therapeutics in PWS, especially in deletion pathology. Thus, genetic subtyping during diagnostic confirmation endorses further prognostic elaboration.

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deletion pathologyfat-free mass indexhs-CRPlipoprotein-(a)Prader-Willi-Syndrome

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PMCPMC12089778

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