ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab 2020; 33(2): 295–304. doi: 10.1515/jpem-2019-0345• Using the validated World Health Organization QOL-BREF questionnaire that independently assesses the physical, psychological, social and environmental domains, the authors assessed health-related QOL in 200 Egyptian children and adolescents with CAH.• Older patients had si...

To read the full abstract: Publications 2020;8:17Predatory journals, sometimes called write-only publishing or deceptive publishing, follow an exploitive academic publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without checking articles for quality and legitimacy and without providing the other editorial and publishing services that legitimate academic journals provide, whether open access or not. Their numbers keep ...

To read the full abstract: Trends Endocrinol Metab. 2018; 29(10):675–685This paper comprehensively reviews current knowledge on epigenetic mechanisms in adipose tissue that may account for transgenerational dysregulation of adipocyte formation and adipose tissue function.There is increasing evidence that adult-onset disorders, including obesity, may derive fro...

Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2019 Published Online March 13, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/S2213-8587(19)30083-X• Practical challenges associated with diabetes care in humanitarian contexts in low- and middle- income countries abound.• In this position paper, the authors articulate the important needs around diabetes care in the context of the 6 building blocks ...

To read the full abstract: Eur J Endocrinol 2017;177:D1-D12Newborn screening (NBS) is an invaluable tool for identification of CH; however almost 70% of newborns worldwide do not benefit from NBS at all. In countries with NBS, lowering of TSH cut-offs over the years led to major controversy on the optimal TSH screening cut-off. In this very interesting debate paper, arguments are presented f...

The current chapter on gender dysphoria (GD) in children and adolescents and disorders/differences of sex development (DSD) is a novel addition to the Yearbook and presented here for the first time. The reason for adding the chapter is obvious for all pediatric endocrinologists as the knowledge and numbers of patients in these areas have increased heavily during the past few decades. This situation has created clinical and ethical challenges for pediatric endocrinologists look...

To read the full abstract: Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2017 Oct;5(10):816-826See comment on 6.8...

To read the full abstract: BMJ. 2017 Jun 30;357:j2963This group of 5 transgender and non-medical professional authors has written a unique “What Your Patient is Thinking” article published in the BMJ. Their aim was to tell health care providers, and others who manage transgender people, how they want to be received and treated and what went wrong in many previous meetings with the healt...

To read the full abstract: Sex Dev. 2018;12(1-3):123-134There is a paucity of psychological follow-up studies in DSD patients. This is especially problematic since differences in sex development often affect the individual in fundamental ways that are related to their self-perception and social experiences. In this paper, the authors explain, in an illustrative way, the different strategies that can ...

To read the full abstract: Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2017; 87(6): 651-659Patients with CAH are treated with lifelong glucocorticoid (GC) replacement therapy and, for the classic form of the disease, treatment with fludrocortisone is also necessary. During different periods throughout life, it may be difficult to achieve optimal dosing of GC replacement therapy, leading to over- or under-treatment and, t...