ATHERO-PREVENT

International Symposium

Athero-prevent

International symposium Athero-prevent was held under the auspices of doc. MUDr. Ingrid Schusterova, PhD. president of Atherosclerosis

Section of the SSKB, the head of the Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine of UPJS LF and DFN Kosice, in cooperation with Cardiovascular Disease Prevention section of the

SPS (Slovak Paediatric Society)  in Kosice on 5^th of December 2016.

The aim of the conference was to highlight the importance of stratification not only of traditional risk factors, but also of non-traditional risk factors and biomarkers of

cardiovascular diseases in adult as well as pediatric population and its implementation in our conditions.

Honorable guest of the event was Professor Richard L. Atkinson, MD from the USA (Past President of NAASO, ASCN and the American Obesity

Association). In 2005, Professor Atkinson as first in human studies confirmed a significant association of obesity and Adv36 (Adenovirus 36) seropositivity, lower cholesterol and

triacylglycerol concentrations in Adv36 seropositive individuals. Affecting Adv36 can be a solution to the problem, which is one of the major health priorities on a national, European and global scale.

Over the past 10 years, several research centers across the world have begun to monitor the prevalence of Adv36 infection and it‘s association with obesity, the Department of

Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine of UPJS LF and DFN in Kosice, under the auspices the head of department, doc. MUDr. Ingrid Schusterova, PhD. Is one of them.

Doc. MUDr. Ingrid Schusterova, PhD. and MD. Alžbeta Tóhátyová, PhD. (Kosice) presented the results of the

above-mentioned research, which focused on the role of non-traditional risk factors in the pathogenesis of obesity and cardiovascular changes. RNDr. Ján Király, PhD (Kosice), addressed the ADv36 in his

lecture, from the viewpoint of the virologist.

The 1^st year of the international symposium Athero-prevent hosted also prominent Czech specialists, prof. MUDr. Josef Hyánek, DrSc. (Czech

Republic), MUDr. Eva Tvrzická (Czech Republic). Lecture of prof. MUDr. Hyánek was focused on non-cholesterol sterols in healthy pregnancies,

MUDr. Tvrzická in her lecture presented the role of stearic acid in PUFA metabolism.

Part of the symposium was also the baptism of the book of doc. MUDr. Jozef Kollár, DrSc .: Aterotrombosis, Pathophysiology and Epidemiology.

Professor in his honorary lecture pointed out the importance of cholesterol from the global view of metabolism.

About the relationship of microbiome to obesity says Doc. MUDr. Milan Kuchta, CSc, mim. prof. (Kosice), President of the SPS.

MUDr. Pavol Šimurka, PhD. (Trencin), in his speech, points out the importance of cholesterol across Slovakia and it‘s role in the primary

prevention of atherosclerosis in childhood.

In this forum, experts from the Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine of UPJS LF and DFN in Kosice, from the Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences,

Presov University presented their experiences and results.

The long-term effects of cardiovascular risk factors and the epidemic of childhood obesity increase the urgency of primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in early

childhood.