ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

Brief summary: Giannini et al. report a timely study on the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on glucose metabolism in children and adolescents with obesity and overweight. They compared data from 741 children over a 13-year period, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. They found that children in the COVID-19 restriction group did not have significantly increased values of Body Mass Index (BMI), but they did exhibit higher values of Waist Circumference (WC), Waist/H...