ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab 2018; 31(6):601-608This article summarizes the findings of likely the largest program of neonatal congenital hypothyroidism (CH) screening in the world. This is a truly impressive effort. The overall incidence of CH was 1/2421, in line with other reports that also observed a relatively high incidence of CH in neonates born in Asia. However, a...

Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2021 May 1;527:111218. doi: 10.1016/j.mce.2021.111218. PMID: 33636254This study used a high fat and high sucrose diet to generate obese mice. The offspring of these mice showed activation of the unfolding protein response and the heat-shock response in the hypothalamus as early as weaning. This was associated with malformed paraventricular nucleus axonal projections ...

Bone Miner Metab. 2021 Sep;39(5):851-857Abstract: https://pubmed-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.proxy.kib.ki.se/34115219/In brief: Vitamin D plays a pivotal role in calcium homeostasis and bone health; a question is therefore frequently raised regarding the risk of fractures in children with vitamin D deficiency. This is more pertinent in safeguarding cases where it is not uncommon to fin...

Brief Summary: This retrospective study evaluated the risk and clinicopathological features of second primary thyroid cancer (SPTC) in cancer survivors. The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program collected cancer incidence and mortality data from 8 population-based registries. They identified 7066 patients with SPTC and 83,113 patients with primary thyroid cancer (TC). The standardized incidence ratio (SIR) of SPTC in cancer survivors was higher than in the...

To read the full abstract: Diabetes Care 2018;41:1089-1096These findings show that a 1-SD increase in childhood BMI was associated with a 47–83% increased relative risk of T2DM and a 28% increased relative risk of CAD in adult life, yet childhood BMI was not associated with adult chronic kidney disease. This is the first study to examine the causal relationship between childhood BMI and cardio-...

Brief Summary: This genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analysis of 271,040 European participants investigated the genetic determinants of thyroid function, including reference range serum TSH, FT4, free and total T3, proxies for metabolism (T3/FT4 ratio), as well as dichotomized high and low TSH levels. It identified 259 independent associations for TSH, 85 for FT4, and novel associations for thyroid hormone (TH) metabolism (T3/FT4 ratio). Genetic variants explained 14....

To read the full abstract: Cell Metab. 2019 4;29:1363–1375.Mesenchymal stem and/or stromal cells (MSCs) regulate immune system and have been associated with inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The IGF system is mainly known for its role in the regulation of growth, development and metabolism. A possible role of IGF-I in inflammation has recently been proposed [1, 2], whereas the e...

To read the full abstract: Nat Genet. 2018 Mar;50(3):432-442Maternal obesity is associated with poor outcomes across the reproductive spectrum including infertility, increased time to pregnancy, early pregnancy loss, congenital abnormalities and neonatal complications. Adverse effects are detectable as early as the oocyte and preimplantation embryo stage, and that these early effects may cont...

Front Endocrinol 2021; 12:624507. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2021.624507– This systematic review identified 41 Chinese studies totalling 7,853,756 newborns who underwent neonatal CAH screening– The overall incidence of CAH in China was 1/23,024 (95% CI, 1/25,757 to 1/20,815)– Among the CAH patients, the Male:Female ratio was 1.92:1, and 76% presented with salt wasting<p class=...

J Bone Miner Res. 2022 Feb;37(2):179-184.Abstract: https://pubmed-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov/34464000/In Brief: Fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) and parathyroid hormone (PTH) both negatively regulate serum phosphate by increasing renal phosphate excretion. The clinical observation that both PTH and FGF23 are needed for adequate renal phosphate handling is confirmed in this experimental patient stu...