ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

Human Reproduction, 2021; 36(7): 1948–1958https://bit.ly/3vtcByFThis cross-sectional study shows that men who had been exposed in utero to endocrine disruptors (EDC) are twice more likely to have a low sperm count, below the reference values per ejaculation set by the World Health Organisation.Male reproductive function is known to be highly sensitive to a number of chemical compou...

Hormone Research in Paediatrics 2020;93:548–557https://bit.ly/2ToJvmvThe authors studied 2,657 German children aged 5-18 years to look for social patterning in the age at puberty timing and circulating gonadotrophin levels. Lower socio-economic status (SES) was associated with earlier thelarche, longer duration of puberty, and overweight in girls, but not age at menarche. In boys, lower SES showed a tren...

The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2021, Vol. 106, No. 9, e3634–e3643PMID: 33950234Brief Summary: This trial explored the effects of rhGH treatment in patients with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) on respiratory and sleep parameters. The trial was randomized and placebo-controlled for 1 year, followed by a 2-year, open-phase GH treatment period. Polysomnography performed every 6 months revealed no adverse effects of rhGH tr...

J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 2022. 107(5): p. 1357-1367. PMID: 34964458Brief Summary: This multicenter, randomized, controlled, phase 2 study compared the effects of once-weekly long-acting growth hormone (GH) somapacitan versus daily GH administered to GH-deficient (GHD) children over a period of 156 weeks. Efficacy estimates were height velocity (HV; cm/y) at year 3 and changes from baseline to end for height SDS, HV SDS, IGF-I SDS, and insulin-li...

Bone Miner Metab. 2021 Sep;39(5):851-857Abstract: https://pubmed-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.proxy.kib.ki.se/34115219/In brief: Vitamin D plays a pivotal role in calcium homeostasis and bone health; a question is therefore frequently raised regarding the risk of fractures in children with vitamin D deficiency. This is more pertinent in safeguarding cases where it is not uncommon to fin...

gaetano.riemma@unicampania.it Cancers 2021, 13, 6331. PMID: 34944951.Brief Summary: This systematic review and meta-analysis examined the value of anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) to predict premature ovarian failure (POI) in childhood cancer survivors (CCSs), compared to the general population.The potential toxic effect of alkylating agents and body irradiation on female...

randi.lykke-sylvest@regionh.dk Human Reproduction, Vol.36, No.9, pp. 2576–2586, 2021. PMID: 34166497.Brief Summary: This Danish register-based cohort study investigated the rate of fatherhood among 9,353 men diagnosed with cancer during childhood or early adulthood (CSs), compared with 1,386,493 age-matched males without cancer. CSs became fathers slightly less frequently than controls (36...

Lancet. 2021 Nov 13;398(10313):1837-1850. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34774146/Brief Summary: This review summarizes key aspects of type 1 diabetes (T1D), such as epidemiology, pathogenesis, risk factors and management. While reviewing and discussing these topics, the central theme of the review is the burden of T1D and the challenges encountered in its daily management in low- and midd...

ascheim1@jhmi.edu Obesity (Silver Spring) 2022, 30(5):973–981 https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.23385Brief Summary: This review analyzes the outcomes after bariatric procedures among patients with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) mutations, Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS), and hypothalamic obesity (HO). The benef...

Nature. 2022;602(7898):632-8. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04408-7.PubMed ID: 35140404Brief summary: This study in the fruit-fly, Drosophila melanogaster, identified a novel gut-derived, nutrient-specific neuropeptide hormone, ‘Diuretic hormone 31’ (Dh31), which triggers the insects to switch their behaviour from feeding to courtship and reproduction.Romantic di...