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ey0015.9-13 | Biologic agents in chronic inflammatory diseases: lights and shadows | ESPEYB15

9.13 Biologic agents are associated with excessive weight gain in children with inflammatory bowel disease

L Haas , R Chevalier , BT Major , F Enders , S Kumar , J Tung

To read the full abstract: Dig Dis Sci. 2017;62:3110-3116This retrospective single-centre study is the first to report the impact of anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) therapy on weight gain in children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The results are consistent with data in adults, in whom weight gain during anti-TNF treatment was negatively correlated to pre-treatment BMI (1). A si...

ey0016.4-9 | New Perspectives | ESPEYB16

4.9. Low IGF-I bioavailability impairs growth and glucose metabolism in a mouse model of human PAPPA2 p.Ala1033Val mutation

M Fujimoto , M Andrew , L Liao , D Zhang , G Yildirim , P Sluss , B Kalra , A Kumar , S Yakar , V Hwa , A Dauber

To read the full abstract: Endocrinology. 2019;160:1363–1376.Pregnancy-associated plasma protein A2 (PAPP-A2) is a metalloproteinase which, by cleaving IGFBP-3 and IGFBP-5, releases free IGF-I from the ternary complexes and regulates its bioavailability. PAPPA2 gene mutations (p.D643fs25* and p.Ala1033Val) have recently been described in various members of two unrelated fam...

ey0020.10-2 | New Data on the Epidemiology of T2D in Children | ESPEYB20

10.2. The Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic is associated with a substantial rise in frequency and severity of presentation of youth-onset type 2 diabetes

SN Magge , RM Wolf , L Pyle , EA Brown , VC Benavides , ME Bianco , LC Chao , A Cymbaluk , PG Balikcioglu , K Halpin , DS Hsia , L Huerta-Saenz , JJ Kim , S Kumar , LE Levitt--Katz , BE Marks , A Neyman , KL O'Sullivan , SS Pillai , AS Shah , AH Shoemaker , JAW Siddiqui , S Srinivasan , IH Thomas , JB Tryggestad , MF Yousif , MM Kelsey , COVID-19 and Type 2 Diabetes Consortium Kelsey

Brief summary: A significant increase in the incidence T2D occurred in the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among children with obesity and males.Comment: This is the first multicenter report on the incidence of T2D during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA. The average number of new diagnoses per year in the two pre-pandemic years was 825, compared with 1463 during the first pandemic year. This increase of 77% is significan...