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ey0020.2-3 | Important for Clinical Practice | ESPEYB20

2.3. Timing of puberty, pubertal growth, and adult height in short children born small for gestational age treated with growth hormone

EN Upners , LL Raket , JH Petersen , A Thankamony , E Roche , G Shaikh , J Kirk , H Hoey , SA Ivarsson , O Soder , A Juul , RB Jensen

Brief summary: In this study the authors reported the adult height and timing of puberty of a cohort of Danish children born small for gestational age (SGA) and treated with rhGH in comparison with national growth standards. rhGH treatment significantly increased height SDS in adulthood as compared to the height SDS at treatment start. Age at peak height velocity did not differ compared with the reference cohort, although peak height velocity was reduced in SGA subjects. SGA b...

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10.8. Absence of islet autoantibodies and modestly raised glucose values at diabetes diagnosis should Lead to testing for MODY: lessons from a 5-year pediatric Swedish National Cohort study

A Carlsson , M Shepherd , S Ellard , M Weedon , A Lernmark , G Forsander , K Colclough , Q Brahimi , C Valtonen-Andre , SA Ivarsson , H Elding Larsson , U Samuelsson , E Ortqvist , L Groop , J Ludvigsson , C Marcus , AT Hattersley

Diabetes Care. 2020; 43:8289. doi: 10.2337/dc19-0747.It is often difficult to identify maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) in pediatric patients close to diabetes onset. Hence, misdiagnosis and unnecessary insulin treatment are still common.This study reports the discriminatory clinical features at diabetes onset in Swedish pediatric patients (age 118 y...

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2.3. Timing of puberty, pubertal growth, and adult height in short children born small for gestational age treated with growth hormone

10.8. Absence of islet autoantibodies and modestly raised glucose values at diabetes diagnosis should Lead to testing for MODY: lessons from a 5-year pediatric Swedish National Cohort study

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