ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

Hormone Research in Paediatrics 2020;93:548–557https://bit.ly/2ToJvmvThe authors studied 2,657 German children aged 5-18 years to look for social patterning in the age at puberty timing and circulating gonadotrophin levels. Lower socio-economic status (SES) was associated with earlier thelarche, longer duration of puberty, and overweight in girls, but not age at menarche. In boys, lower SES showed a tren...

To read the full abstract: N Engl J Med. 2018;379(14):1303–1312.This analysis of longitudinal BMI data from early childhood to adolescents in 51,505 German subjects (CrescNet patient registry) allows a new insight into BMI development, specific dynamics and BMI trajectories from childhood to early adulthood.The exact pattern and time course of weight gain duri...

Brief summary: This retrospective longitudinal study included 5698 patients with multiple height measurements since birth to the near-adult age. The aim was to define different growth patterns of children from birth to 18 years corrected for gestational age, sex and auxological status at birth in order to early identify children at risk for adult short stature. Adult height was significantly reduced in preterm and/or in small-for-gestational-age (SGA) children, with no sex dif...

Brief Summary:This study in mice and humans shows how paternal overweight at conception affects the metabolism of their offspring. Sperm-borne mt-sncRNAs (mitochondrial encoded or derived small non-coding RNAs) are altered by a 2-week high fat diet (HFD) challenge in mice, likely through specific upregulation of mt-tsRNAs (mitochondrial transfer RNAs) caused by mitochondrial dysfunction. In humans, mt-tsRNAs in spermatozoa correlate with body mass index. Genetically engineered...