ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: Thyroid. 2018;28:959–67.This observational single center study aimed to identify predictors of transient versus permanent congenital hypothyroidism in patients with thyroid gland in situ diagnosed at birth. Strengths of the study are the prospectively documented clinical, biochemical and radiological parameters, the high inclusion rate, a...

Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2021 Feb;94(2):269–276. doi: 10.1111/cen.14353. PMID: 33098093.Every clinician encounters sometimes tricky incidentalomas, i.e., non-symptom-related imaging findings that are a consequence of increased availability and resolution of radiologic imaging.This study evaluated pediatric pituitary incidentalomas (PIs). Pituitary microadenomas...

BMJ Open. 2020 Dec 24;10(12):e045335. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045335. PMID: 33361084This BMJ review aimed to assess the accuracy of CGM devices to detect hypoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia in preterm infants. The key take home messages from the BMJ review were that the sensitivity for CGM devices to diagnose and detect hypoglycaemia in preterm infants was poor but the specificity was h...

J Appl Toxicol. 2021 Apr;41(4):572–586. doi: 10.1002/jat.4066. PMID: 329695In this study, pregnant dams were exposed to different types of organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs) at a sensitive development period (from gestation to lactation). The offspring were fed either a high or a low-fat diet for 17 weeks and then underwent a battery of metabolic assessments. OPFR exposure did not alte...

J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol. 2021 Apr;34(2):168–175. doi:10.1016/j.jpag.2020.11.012. PMID: 33248216The authors report the long-term outcomes of 71 patients with Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS) in the multicentre cross-sectional dsd-LIFE study. Patients were included at 14 different sites in 6 countries in Europe. This is one of the largest long-term studies on CAIS and is of interest to clinicians who manage girls and women wi...

JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(10):e2015665. 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.15665.. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2771377In brief: This Danish population-based 20-year cohort study provides strong epidemiological data supporting substantial increases in central precocious pub...

Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2021; 30: 133–141. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33033142/This retrospective study of 152 patients and 604 matched-controls within the FCCSS (French Childhood Cancer Survivor Study) cohort aimed to identify clinical and therapeutic factors associated with long-term risk of subsequent primary neoplasm (SPN) in the central nervous system (CNS), occurri...

J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2020; 105: e3730–41. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32706856/This retrospective analysis of the Pfizer International Growth Database (KIGS) included 1149 cancer survivors with growth hormone deficiency (GHD) who had received growth hormone therapy (GHT) for at least 5 years. Patients with craniopharyngioma had the best 5-year growth response ...

Diabetes Care. 2020;43(10):2537–2543. doi: 10.2337/dc20-0736.This paper describes a randomized crossover trial in young people with T1D (16–24 years old) comparing two 8-week study periods: the factory-calibrated Dexcom G6 CGM system versus routine self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG). CGM improved time within glucose target and reduced HbA1c by 0.76%.The prim...

BMJ. 2020 Dec 10;371:m4337. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m4337.In brief: Owners of dogs which have with diabetes are more likely to develop T2DM themselves than owners of dogs without diabetes. The underlying mechanisms might include shared diabetogenic health behaviours and environmental exposures. No shared risk of diabetes was found between cat owners and their cats.Co...