ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

yufang@mail.xjtu.edu.cn Front Pharmacol 2022 13:820621. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2022.820621Brief Summary: This national cross-sectional survey in Pakistan found poor availability of insulin in the public sector, even for brands manufactured by domestic companies.Access to insulin remains a major issue worldwide in low- and middl...

prahalad@stanford.edu Pediatr Diabetes 2022; 23: 228–236. doi: 10.1111/pedi.13278Brief Summary: Analysis of the multi-national SWEET diabetes registry showed that mean HbA1c in youth is highest at diagnosis and lowest at 4 to 5 months post-diagnosis. The HbA1c trajectory was lower in countries with nationalized health insurance. High gross domestic p...

N Engl J Med. 2021;385(6):503-15. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2107519.PubMed ID: 34170647Brief summary: this randomized control trial in 1879 adults with type 2 diabetes compared effects of once-weekly Tirzepatide (5, 10 or 15 mg) versus once-weekly Semaglutide (1 mg) on glycemic control. After 40 weeks, all doses of Tirzepatide were superior to Semaglutide on lowering HbA1c.Gluca...

Nat Hum Behav. 2022;6(1):43-54. doi: 10.1038/s41562-021-01196-4.PubMed ID: 34504299Brief summary: This study analysed a large database of emails, calendars, instant messages, video/audio calls and workweek hours routinely generated by 61 182 US Microsoft employees in the months before and after 4th March 2020, when the company mandated that all non-essential employees change to full-time w...

JAMA. 2022;327(4):350-9. doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.23686.PubMed ID: 35076666Brief summary: This study assessed the penetrance of pathogenic and loss-of-function clinical variants in 2 large population-based biobank studies. It found that the penetrance of pathogenic/loss-of-function variants was variable but generally low among such unselected populations.We are increasing...

To read the full abstract: J Clin Invest. 2020 Feb 3;130(2):641–654. doi: 10.1172/JCI127378. PMID: 31845906.Congenital pituitary hypoplasia (CPH) is a multifactorial disorder, in which the pituitary has not developed correctly. The underlying mechanisms are mostly unknown, and studies are limited by the lack of appropriate disease models. This work modelled the effect of a novel OTX2</e...

To read the full abstract: J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2020 Mar 1;105(3):dgaa037.This study aimed to assess the frequency of natriuretic peptide receptor type B gene (NPR2 ) variants in 87 children with familial short stature (FSS) and evaluate their response to GH therapy. By applying whole-exome or custom-targeted NGS panel sequencing, NPR2 variants were found in 5 children (5.7%) belonging to 4 families. These variants were cla...

To read the full abstract: Human Reproduction (Oxford, England) vol. 35, 2 (2020): 257–264. doi: https://academic.oup.com/humrep/article/35/2/257/5709207. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31958337/This randomized controlled trial compares treatment with peroral letrozole or intramuscular low-dose testosterone in ...

To read the full abstract: Disease Models & Mechanisms vol. 13,3 dmm040105. 13 Mar. 2020. doi: https://dmm.biologists.org/content/13/3/dmm040105.longThese authors developed an in vitro model to study human GnRH neuron transcriptome during developmental differentiation. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons in the hypothalamus govern t...

To read the full abstract: Bone Marrow Transplant. 2020 Apr 24. doi: 10.1038/s41409-020-0914-5. Epub ahead of print. a.leiper@nhs.netAnti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), secreted by granulosa cells of growing pre- and early antral ovarian follicles, reflects the reserve of primordial ovarian follicles at any time from birth to menopause. Serum AMH leve...