ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

J Clin Endocrinol Metab, August 2020, 105(8):e2796–e2806. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgaa287. PMID: 32436961The aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate the potential long-term adverse effects of combined GnRHa/GH treatment on metabolic and bone health in short SGA children. Reassuring data are found at 5 years after cessation of GH therapy.Children born small ...

Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2020; 67: e28617. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32715632/This retrospective single-centre study aimed to develop a final height prediction model based on data from 212 long-term survivors (aged 5-20.4 years) of childhood central nervous system (CNS) tumors who received craniospinal irradiation (CSI) and with a median follow up of 10.2 years. Mean fin...

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 ...

Lancet Glob Health 2020; 8: e1546–54. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30388-0– Hypoglycemia is associated with increased mortality in severely sick children. WHO recommends treatment of hypoglycemia for a blood glucose < 2.5 mmol/l– The authors hypothesized that increasing the threshold for the treatment of hypoglycemia from 2.5 to 5 mmol/l would reduce all cause in-hos...

J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2022 Jan 1;107(1):109-118.Abstract: https://pubmed-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov/34498693/In Brief: This study established a standard range of Inorganic Pyrophosphate (PPi) between 2.36 and 4.44 µM (5th-95th percentiles) in the blood plasma of children and adolescents aged 0 to 18 years, using the ATP sulfurylase assay. There was no sex difference and the range is similar t...

Eur J Prev Cardiol 2022;29(5):758-65. doi: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwab152Brief Summary: This retrospective study identified an association between high maternal cholesterol levels during pregnancy with more severe heart attacks in young adult offspring.Comment: During pregnancy, physiological increases in total cholesterol and triglyceride (TG) levels occur due to increases in i...

fpbrennan@ozemail.com.au Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2022; 183: 109153. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2021.109153Brief Summary: In this perspective, the authors argue that a human rights-based approach to access to insulin empowers patients, families, and communities living with diabetes, and grounds actions by governments, clinicians, and non-governme...

To read the full abstract: J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2019;104(10):4481–91. PMID 31305927.In this randomized crossover study, 16 healthy adults were examined in a metabolic chamber during four different conditions of energy balance (ad libitum energy intake, zero energy balance, 25% caloric restriction, and 125% overfeeding) and at three levels of energy turnover (ET): Physi...

To read the full abstract: EMBO Mol Med 2018;e9569:1–18TUBB1 encodes a member of the beta-tubulin protein family. Beta-tubulins and alpha-tubulins form dimers, which assemble into microtubules belonging to the intracellular cytoskeleton structure.The authors identified three different mutations in TUBB1 by whole exome sequencing in a large co...

To read the full abstract: Cell. 2018; 175(3): 695–708This paper demonstrates for the first time the existence of extracellular vesicle (EV)-mediated signaling between cell types within the adipose tissue. The results of various experiments show a network of EV-mediated exchange of cellular material in adipose tissue. This newly discovered EV trafficking in adipose tissue...