ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

Brief summary: The authors used data from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 to examine the incidence, disability adjusted life years and mortality of early onset type 2 diabetes T2D) in those 15–39 years of age. This showed that early onset T2D is a growing global health problem in adolescents and young adults, particularly in low-middle- and middle-income countries.Early onset of type 2 diabetes (T2D) is associated with longer lifetime exposure hyp...

Abstract: Nature. 2019 Mar;567(7747):234–238.In brief: In this article, the authors present evidence that the murine epiphyseal growth plate develops a postnatal stem cell niche with monoclonal properties, that are able to self-renew. They thereby challenge the concept of a continous depletion of progenitor cells as a limiting factor for bone growth.<p class="abste...