ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology 2018; 6: 114–121Cystic fibrosis (CF)-related diabetes (CFRD) impacts significantly on mortality and quality of life. Impaired glucose metabolism and CFRD are associated with poor weight and height gain and impaired lung function in children and adolescents (1). In that study, height and weight were lower in CF patients wit...

To read the full abstract: J Pediatr. 2019;207:205–2129.Psychosocial issues and psychiatric disease are prevalent in young patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Most importantly, eating disorders, anxiety-related behavioral problems as well as depression have all been shown to occur (1). In a nationwide population-based survey, this group had previously reported on relationships betw...

Brief Summary: For both clinicians and patients, it is of great interest to have easily-applicable predictors to forecast weight reductions achievable by lifestyle intervention (LI). This study identified 3 distinct clusters of responses to paediatric outpatient LI. Up to 2 years after LI initiation, responses ranged from ‘pronounced BMIz loss’ (in 19% of patients; median delta-BMIz: -0.61 (IQR: -0.76 to -0.49) to ‘moderate BMIz loss’ (in 45%; -0.23 (-0.33 ...

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...