ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

Abstract: Nature. 2018 Sep;561(7722):195–200.In brief: This study used various cell-based methods and animal models to investigate the RANK-RANKL signaling pathway in bone homeostasis. The authors show for the first time, that reverse signaling exists from osteoclast to osteoblast and that vesicular RANK, secreted by the osteoclast, relays information to the osteoblast...

To read the full abstract: Pediatr Diabetes. 2018;19:1271–1275New technologies such as continuous glucose monitoring, insulin pumps and closed-loop systems are likely to change diabetes care and hopefully will reduce the burden of disease management, decrease diabetes associated comorbidities, and increase life expectancy.To assess the change in rates of pedia...

To read the full abstract: J Clin Invest 2017;127:3861-3865Metaphyseal chondrodysplasia, Schmid type (MCDS) is an orphan disease with highly abnormal endochondral ossification causing shortening and deformities of the limbs, impairment of mobility and chronic pain. As for most skeletal dysplasias, current treatment options remain symptomatic due to the lack in causal therapeutic measures. In the actua...

To read the full abstract: Diabetes Care. 2018;41:303-310One of the major short term complications of T1DM is the imminent risk of hypoglycemia during insulin treatment. In addition and importantly, long term complications of diabetes include those induced by frequent hypoglycemia, namely neurologic and developmental impairment upon frequent hypoglycemic episodes at a young age. In addition, it is de...

To read the full abstract: J Public Health (Oxf) 2017:1-9Our efforts to control overweight and obesity in children are severely hampered because most of their parents (and indeed most of their health professionals!) cannot visually recognise an obese child, let alone one who is overweight. This is particularly difficult at around the ages 4-6 years old because this coincides with the BMI n...

To read the full abstract: N Engl J Med 2017;377:13-27Other estimates of the global trends and projections in obesity have been published. In this regard, the current analysis provides similar, albeit equally worrying, data on the trends towards more obesity across all regions of the world. Moreover, a particular advance of this current study, which was funded by the Bill and Melind...

In Brief: Current dogma is that lymphatic vessels are absent in bone and bone marrow. Using advanced 3D-imaging and mouse genetics, these authors show the presence of lymph vessels in bone. Moreover, they show that genotoxic stress causes lymph vessels expansion and lymphangiogenesis in bone, which in turn promotes bone and hematopoietic regeneration.Commentary: The lymphatic system maintains fluid homeostasis, removes cellular waste products and produce...

Brief summary: In this cross-sectional study, 11-oxygenated androgens were measured in morning serum samples from 290 healthy adults (125 men, age 22–95 years; 165 women, age 21–91 years) by LC–MSMS (liquid chromatography, tandem mass spectrometry) to generate normative values across the lifespan. In a subset of volunteers (n=83), additional measurements were performed in saliva to assess diurnal and menstrual cycle-dependent variation. In general, it w...

Diabetologia, 2021; 64, 375–384.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00125-020-05302-5#Abs1The authors measured plasma anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) levels over 2x 5-year intervals in a prospective cohort study of 3293 healthy women aged 20–59 years at baseline. Lower baseline age-specific AMH levels were associated with a higher risk of Type 2 di...

Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2021 Dec 23;16(1):522.Abstract: https://pubmed-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov/34949201/In Brief: Based on over 37,000 length/height, weight and head circumference measures from 1374 patients with achondroplasia in the USA, updated length/height-for-age, weight-for-age, head circumference-for-age (HC) and weight-for-height curves were generated for children up to 18 years of age (HC u...