ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: Diabetes Care. 2020. doi: 10.2337/dc20-0723Short summary: In this observational cohort of hospitalised COVID-19 patients in Italy, patients who had hyperglycaemia, with or without diabetes, were at higher risk for severe COVID disease than normoglycaemic patients. Insulin infusion was effective for achieving glycaemic targets and reducing mortality in patients...

To read the full abstract: Science 2019;366(6464):447-53. doi: 10.1126/science.aax2342Short summary: Dissecting racial bias in health care systems revealed that a type of software program, which determines who receives access to high-risk health care management, routinely accepts healthier whites ahead of blacks who are less healthy.Comment: The yea...

To read the full abstract: BMJ Case Rep 2020;13:e231737. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2019-231737• The authors report 2 cases of severe short stature, Laron Syndrome and Cornelia-Delange-like syndrome, followed in Ecuador, a country with limited resources.• They highlight the tendency of a society to discuss children with severe short stature with derogatory terms to automatically assume tha...

To read the full abstract: Publications 2020;8:17Predatory journals, sometimes called write-only publishing or deceptive publishing, follow an exploitive academic publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without checking articles for quality and legitimacy and without providing the other editorial and publishing services that legitimate academic journals provide, whether open access or not. Their numbers keep ...

To read the full abstract: J Med Genet. 2019 Mar 15. pii: jmedgenet-2018-105714. [Epub ahead of print].Paragangliomas and pheochromocytomas (PPGL) are rare neuroendocrine tumours that can arise either from the adrenal medulla (pheochromocytomas, PCC) or from extra-adrenal paraganglia (paragangliomas, PGL). PPGLs are considered to be the most heritable of human tumours with at least...

To read the full abstract: Trends Endocrinol Metab. 2018; 29(10):675–685This paper comprehensively reviews current knowledge on epigenetic mechanisms in adipose tissue that may account for transgenerational dysregulation of adipocyte formation and adipose tissue function.There is increasing evidence that adult-onset disorders, including obesity, may derive fro...

Cell 2018;175:605–614.DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.07.044.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30340032Summary: Epidemiological, clinical intervention trials and experimental evidence indicate the negative impact of excessive carbohydrate uptake. This review details the history of carbohydrate consumption and mechanisms of ca...

To read the full abstract: Nat Rev Endocrinol 2017;13:588-598Central hypothyroidism has received much interest in recent years, partly due to the discovery of new causal gene mutations. This is a comprehensive review on several aspects of central hypothyroidism. It discusses prevalence, and its variation between different countries; pitfalls in diagnosis, including assay interference; concurrent...

To read the full abstract: J Adolesc Health. 2017 Jul;61(1):120-123Recent developments in assisted reproduction technologies (ART) have changed the scene for fertility wishes in a number of disorders, including GD. Fertility preservation is now routinely offered to postpubertal adolescent and adult GD patients at increasing numbers of medical centers. For biological boys, this is a non...

To read the full abstract: Sex Dev. 2018;12(1-3):123-134There is a paucity of psychological follow-up studies in DSD patients. This is especially problematic since differences in sex development often affect the individual in fundamental ways that are related to their self-perception and social experiences. In this paper, the authors explain, in an illustrative way, the different strategies that can ...