ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

Transl Psychiatry. 2022; 12(1): 132. PMID: 35354798https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35354798/Brief Summary: This case control study identified widespread effects of fetal exposure to antenatal maternal glucocorticoid treatment on newborn bloodspot DNA methylation profiles.Antenatal treatment with glucocorticoids (AGC), such as betamethasone or dexamethasone, is widely u...

Diabetes Care 2021;44:1898-1905. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34285100/Brief Summary: This systematic review and meta-analysis of 46 studies and 6,468 participants (aged <20 years) provides evidence that youth with type 1 diabetes (T1D) have reduced lower body mineral density (BMD), as assessed by multiple modalities: DXA, peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT), and/or qu...

To read the full abstract: Diabetes Care. 2020 Apr;43(4):906–908. doi: 10.2337/dc19-2126. Epub 2020 Jan 23. PMID: 31974101Antenatal corticosteroid administration prior to planned cesarean section in early labour reduces by >50% the risk of admission to the neonatal intensive care unit for respiratory distress syndrome and transient tachypnea of the newborn. However, among pregnant women wit...

To read the full abstract: J Bone Miner Res 2019;34(8):1387–1392.In brief: Cell tracing of the growth plate chondrocytes most adjacent to the perichondrium demonstrate that they transit into the metaphysis and contribute to the pool osteoblasts and reticular stromal cells of the bone marrow during growth in young mice.Commentary: Borderline chondrocytes are the growth plate chondrocytes located as a ...

To read the full abstract: JAMA Pediatrics 2019, 173, 280–282Amongst the enteroviruses that have been associated with the development of type 1 diabetes (T1DM) in children, rotavirus infection is the most common. Using publicly available data from Australian national registries, the authors performed interrupted time-series analyses to compare the incidence of newly diagnosed childhood T1DM during the 8 years before the national introductio...

To read the full abstract: Pediatr Diabetes. 2020;21(2):224–32. doi: 10.1111/pedi.12976Short summary: This high-quality, longitudinal lifestyle intervention, with ample funding, had little effect on improving health behaviour profiles of adolescents with T2DM.Comment: The first sweeping recommendation for adolescents with obesity, and certainly for ...

To read the full abstract: Diabetes Care 2020;43(1):187–95. doi: 10.2337/dc19-0708Short summary: Over 5 years follow-up, bariatric surgery compared with medical treatment resulted in dramatic attenuation of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) in adolescents with T2DM and severe obesity, beyond the impact of improved glycaemic control and weight loss.Comment</em...

To read the full abstract: J Endocrinol. 2018 Jul 26.This study, using a mouse model, investigated the effects of high fat diet-induced maternal obesity on both fetal and adult offspring skeletal development.Maternal nutrition appears to influence epigenetic alterations in the offspring and to program gene expression in key metabolic pathways, such as fatty acids a...

Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2019 Published Online March 13, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/S2213-8587(19)30083-X• Practical challenges associated with diabetes care in humanitarian contexts in low- and middle- income countries abound.• In this position paper, the authors articulate the important needs around diabetes care in the context of the 6 building blocks ...

To read the full abstract: J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2018 Jan 1;103(1):228-234[Comments on 7.5 and 7.6] Remarkably, the timing of puberty shows important differences between individuals1. Based on twin studies, differences in pubertal timing are considered to depend on genetic factors which account for up to 60-70% of the varianc...