ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: J Public Health (Oxf) 2017:1-9Our efforts to control overweight and obesity in children are severely hampered because most of their parents (and indeed most of their health professionals!) cannot visually recognise an obese child, let alone one who is overweight. This is particularly difficult at around the ages 4-6 years old because this coincides with the BMI n...

To read the full abstract: N Engl J Med 2017;377:13-27Other estimates of the global trends and projections in obesity have been published. In this regard, the current analysis provides similar, albeit equally worrying, data on the trends towards more obesity across all regions of the world. Moreover, a particular advance of this current study, which was funded by the Bill and Melind...

To read the full abstract: J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2017;102:1797-1806We know that conventional glucocorticoid therapies fail to mimic the normal diurnal profile of cortisol secretion, which should show an early morning surge in circulating levels, followed by a gradual daytime reduction, and night-time suppression. The early morning surge in ACTH also drives adrenal androgen production, which is e...

Nature 2021; 592: 80–85https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03345-1These authors performed whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of 86 bulk placental samples and of 106 microdissections of placental tissue in order to reconstruct the development of human placental cells from data on somatic mutations. They found that the placenta comprises of multiple very large, genetically dis...

J Clin Oncol. 2022 Apr 1;40(10):1081-1090. doi: 10.1200/JCO.21.01861. Epub 2022 Jan 11. PMID: 35015563Brief Summary: This retrospective monocenter study of clinical, pathological and molecular analysis of n=113 children with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) showed that genetic analysis of DTC provided more accurate information on prognosis and outcome than classical histological categorizatio...

Lancet Glob Health 2019;7: e132–47. DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ844• This cluster-randomised, community-based trial investigates whether the combination of a water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) intervention and of improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) intervention improves stunting and anemia in children living in rural Zimbabwe.• Stunting decreased with ...

Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2018 Oct;1430(1):44–79. DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13968• This technical report reviews the global prevalence and public health disease burden of vitamin D deficiency.• Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, the working group of content experts from North America and Europe provide a roadmap outlining population-based strategies to impr...

To read the full abstract: Diabetes Care. 2017;40:1034-1040Researchers from The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia as well as scientists from institutions from three different continents, America, Europe and Australia have combined their data from large diabetes registries in order to: examine the prevalence of celiac disease (CD) in populations of patients with T1DM; investigat...

To read the full abstract: New Engl J Med 2017; 377:1733-1745We are still unable to reach treatment goals in all children and adolescents with T1DM. The usually earliest microvascular complication developed in adolescents and young adults is microalbuminuria. Therefore this trial focused on the prevention of microalbuminuria in high risk adolescents with an albumin-to-creatinine ratio in the uppe...

To read the full abstract: Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2017;6:CD012651Here, the authors report an update of a Cochrane review, which was first published in 2003, and last updated in 2009. However, given the complexity of the evidence, the current update is now split into 6 reviews addressing diff...