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ey0021.13-13 | Identifying Health Disparities and Improving Access to Healthcare | ESPEYB21

13.13. Refocusing the World Health Organization's model list of essential medicines on the needs of low and middle income countries

VJ Wirtz , AL Gray , S Sharma , J Sun , HV Hogerzeil

Brief Summary: This commentary argues to refocus the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines on the needs of low and middle-income countries, reiterating the original goals of the process to promote equitable access to medicine and improve health globally.The World Health Organization (WHO) Model List of Essential Medicines, first published in 1977, is designed to promote equitable access to essential medicines that address the priority health needs of pop...

ey0017.3-10 | New genes | ESPEYB17

3.10. DGCR8 microprocessor defect characterizes familial multinodular goiter with schwannomatosis

B Rivera , J Nadaf , S Fahiminiya , M Apellaniz-Ruiz , A Saskin , AS Chong , S Sharma , R Wagener , T Revil , V Condello , Z Harra , N Hamel , N Sabbaghian , K Muchantef , C Thomas , L de Kock , MN Hebert-Blouin , AV Bassenden , H Rabenstein , O Mete , R Paschke , MP Pusztaszeri , W Paulus , A Berghuis , J Ragoussis , YE Nikiforov , R Siebert , S Albrecht , R Turcotte , M Hasselblatt , MR Fabian , WD Foulkes

To read the full abstract: J Clin Invest. 2020;130:1479–1490.This detailed genetic and molecular analysis of a three-generation family reveals a new form of autosomal dominant tumor susceptibility syndrome entitled familial multinodular goiter (MNG) with schwannomatosis. Biallelic alterations of the DGCR8 gene were found in all affected patients: First, all patients harbored the same heterozygous germline mutation p.E518K. Secondly...

ey0015.11-7 | New Developments in Monogenic Obesity | ESPEYB15

11.7 MC4R agonism promotes durable weight loss in patients with leptin receptor deficiency

K Clément , H Biebermann , IS Farooqi , L Van der Ploeg , B Wolters , C Poitou , L Puder , F Fiedorek , K Gottesdiener , G Kleinau , N Heyder , P Scheerer , U Blume-Peytavi , I Jahnke , S Sharma , J Mokrosinski , S Wiegand , A Müller , K Weiß , K Mai , J Spranger , A Grüters , O Blankenstein , H Krude , P Kühnen

To read the full abstract: Nat Med 2018, May;24(5):551-555[Comments on 1.1, 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7] All four here presented articles have monogenic obesity as their theme. While patients with monogenic obesity are rare, these individuals bear a heavy disease burden. Furthermore, these...

ey0019.15-4 | Diabetes | ESPEYB19

15.4. Four groups of type 2 diabetes contribute to the etiological and clinical heterogeneity in newly diagnosed individuals: An IMI DIRECT study

A Wesolowska-Andersen , CA Brorsson , R Bizzotto , A Mari , A Tura , R Koivula , A Mahajan , A Vinuela , JF Tajes , S Sharma , M Haid , C Prehn , A Artati , MG Hong , PB Musholt , A Kurbasic , F De Masi , K Tsirigos , HK Pedersen , V Gudmundsdottir , CE Thomas , K Banasik , C Jennison , A Jones , G Kennedy , J Bell , L Thomas , G Frost , H Thomsen , K Allin , TH Hansen , H Vestergaard , T Hansen , F Rutters , P Elders , L t'Hart , A Bonnefond , M Canouil , S Brage , T Kokkola , A Heggie , D McEvoy , A Hattersley , T McDonald , H Teare , M Ridderstrale , M Walker , I Forgie , GN Giordano , P Froguel , I Pavo , H Ruetten , O Pedersen , E Dermitzakis , PW Franks , JM Schwenk , J Adamski , E Pearson , MI McCarthy , S Brunak , Consortium ID

Cell Rep Med. 2022;3(1):100477. doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2021.100477. PubMed ID: 35106505Brief summary: To explore clinical heterogeneity, this study analyzed baseline visit data on 726 adults with newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes (T2D) adults and identified in 4 distinct profiles (clusters of phenotypes), which predicted differences in subsequent disease progression and anti-diabetic treatments...