ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

Brief summary: Freedman et al. studied a cohort of n=343 preschool children (age 3-7 years) with a wide range of BMI to test the ability of 3 BMI metrics (BMI z-scores, percentage of the 50th and 95th percentile in CDC growth charts) to assess adiposity change (change in body fatness) over 4 years. They showed that changes in adiposity among young children are better captured by expressing changes in BMI as percentage of the 50th or 95th percenti...

N Engl J Med. 2022 May 19;386(20):1877–1888. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2109191.Brief summary: This prospective cohort study leveraged data from the International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohorts (i3C) Consortium, including 42 324 participants at baseline and followed-up over a mean of 35 years, in order to investigate associations between cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF, including body-mass ind...