ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

anton.holmgren@regionhalland.se Pediatr Res. 2021 Jul;90(1):184–190. doi: 10.1038/s41390-020-01234-3.Brief Summary: This observational study compared the pubertal growth spurt of children in a Spanish study group with severe early onset obesity to children in a Swedish community-based study. The authors show that childhood obesity i...

Brief summary: In this paper introduced a new energy trade-off score (ETOS) and index to characterize four extreme human body types regarding height and weight in young adulthood (e.g. tall-slender, short-stout, short-slender, tall-stout) for growth patterns and underlying genetic background. Growth data of 1889 subjects (996 girls) of the GrowUp 1974 Gothenburg study were investigated for the four body types showing that the two trade-off body types tall-slender<...