ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: Elife 2018;7. pii: e33318Here, Cheung et al. use sophisticated tissue specific genetic ablation in pituitary cell lineages to uncover an unexpected differential sensitivity of NOTCH activation signalling pathway in different cell lineages during the embryonic murine pituitary development. These findings are important as they further demonstrate the importance of NOTCH pat...

To read the full abstract: Nat Genet. 2017 Jun;49(6):834-841See comment on 7.6...

To read the full abstract: J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2018; 103(6):2336-2345Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a group of autosomal recessive disorders characterized by impaired cortisol production in the adrenal cortex. Classic CAH represents the most common cause of primary adrenal insufficiency in childhood (10). Infant mortality in patients with CAH has decreased since the advent of...

To read the full abstract: J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2017;102:4578-4587In chronic inflammatory diseases, inflammatory cytokines and exogenous glucocorticoid exposure affect growth through systemic effects on the GH–IGF-1 axis and local effects on the growth plates. Low plasma IGF-1 levels are related to systemic GH insufficiency or to hepatic GH resistance. Changes in IGF binding proteins ha...

To read the full abstract: Diabetes Care. 2018;41:1227-1234Health care is being delivered by organizations that can be regarded as representing ´health industries´. Health care providers work within complex financial constraints and frequently within for profit settings and tight financial frameworks. Hence, health provision is more and more driven by cost-effectiveness and the willingness ...

To read the full abstract: Int J Obes 2018; 42: 115-118Intragastric balloons have now been used for more than 30 years in the treatment of extreme obesity. There are more than 30 studies published with almost 5,000 patients on the efficacy and safety of gastric balloons. However, due to several, sometimes severe side effects and the lack of convincing long-term outcomes, this treatment approach ha...

To read the full abstract: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2017:201711889Changing your diet can improve both your health and the environment. This study shows that the national dietary recommendations to reduce intakes of animal products can reduce environmental impacts in most high-income nations. We all recommended diets to our patients, and nations recommend diets to their po...

To read the full abstract: Lancet 2017;389:2473-2481We are all familiar with the ‘placebo’ effect, when the psychological anticipation of a ‘benefit’ of treatment is so strong that it adds to or even outweighs the actual physical benefits. Many doctors have even admitted to prescribing placebo tablets, or “sugar pills” to their patients, for exam...

Brief summary: This is the first multi-national phase 2 dose finding trial aimed at investigating efficacy and safety of the long acting GH (Somapacitan) with daily GH in short children born SGA. 62 GH treatment-naïve short children born SGA were enrolled in the study. Efficacy was valuated with estimated mean annualized height velocity (HV) after 26 weeks of follow-up. Somapacitan showed similar efficacy of daily rhGH. The study will be extended for further 4 years in or...

Brief summary: This Danish single-center retrospective study evaluated the occurrence of pathological findings on neuroimaging among children diagnosed with central precocious puberty (CPP).CPP incidence has been increasing over the last four decades (1) and is more prevalent in females than in males. Most cases are idiopathic (2) but brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is routinely performed in order to exclude rare pathological causes.<p class="...