ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: Pregnancy Hypertens. 2019 Jan;15:134–140.This observational cohort study highlights the negative association between age at menarche and blood pressure in pregnancy, and the probable relationship with BMI and insulin resistance.Age at menarche (AAM) is influenced by genetic and environmental determinants (1). Given that some...

To read the full abstract: Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2019 Jul;104(4):F353–F359. PMID:30232094.In preterm and in the very low birthweight infants, hyperglycaemia is associated with increased risks of mortality, brain injury, retinopathy of prematurity and worse neurodevelopmental outcomes (1). Treatment of hyperglycaemia with continuous insulin infusion leads to increas...

Eur J Endocrinol. 2020;183:637–645. doi: 10.1530/EJE-20-0617.This study provides for the first time clear evidence that the block and replace (BR) strategy (combination of carbimazole plus levothyroxine) is not superior to the carbimazole dose titration (DT) strategy for treatment of paediatric Graves’ disease.Wood et al. present the first randomized c...

To read the full abstract: Front. Endocrinol. 2020 11:142. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2020.00142• A delayed transition from the infancy to the childhood growth stage contributes to sub-optimal growth outcomes.• Using a novel method to assess the timing of infancy-childhood transition (quantification of patterns of adjacent monthly weight-for-age z-score (WAZ) deviation correlations), th...

Diabetes. 2022;71:1591-1596. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35499624/Brief Summary: This cross-sectional study compared trends in plasma C-peptide decline in 4,076 young people with type 1 diabetes (T1D), with trends in beta-cell loss in 235 pancreas donors. As expected, C-peptide declined over time, and this was particularly marked in children with T1D younger than 7 years. Of interest, p...

To read the full abstract: New Engl J Med 2017; 377:1733-1745We are still unable to reach treatment goals in all children and adolescents with T1DM. The usually earliest microvascular complication developed in adolescents and young adults is microalbuminuria. Therefore this trial focused on the prevention of microalbuminuria in high risk adolescents with an albumin-to-creatinine ratio in the uppe...