ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: Front. Endocrinol. 2020; 11:106. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2020.00106• The authors assessed the relationship between markers of a stressful environment and final height in adult men and women in 71 countries (including 31 countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD]).• They found that the more stressful the e...

To read the full abstract: Front. Endocrinol. 2020 11:142. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2020.00142• A delayed transition from the infancy to the childhood growth stage contributes to sub-optimal growth outcomes.• Using a novel method to assess the timing of infancy-childhood transition (quantification of patterns of adjacent monthly weight-for-age z-score (WAZ) deviation correlations), th...

To read the full abstract: JAMA Pediatr. 2020;174(4):e195881. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.5881• The authors evaluated the change in pubertal onset in healthy girls around the world based on age at thelarche.• Overall, the age at thelarche decreased 0.24 years per decade from 1977 to 2013.• This decrease seems to reflect a worldwide trend....

To read the full abstract: Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2020; 4: 23–35. doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(19)30323-2• The study reports the worldwide prevalence of insufficient physical activity among school-going adolescents aged 11–17 years.• Data from surveys totalling 1.6 million students aged 11–17 years were analysed.• The majority of adolescents do not prese...

To read the full abstract: Lancet Glob Health 2020;8: e134–42. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30457-7• The results of 25OH Vit D determination from 129 studies including 21 474 participants in 23 African countries were analyzed.• Overall, a serum 25(OH)D concentration less than 30 nmol/L was found in 18.5% of the population and less than 75 nmol/l in 59.5% of the populatio...

To read the full abstract: Acta Biomed. 2019; 90(2): 316–320. doi: 10.23750/abm.v90i2.8485• The authors review the present status of newborn screening in Africa and discuss the concept that adding a neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism (CH) to an existing sickle cell disease screening would make it easier to implement than developing an independent screening program.&...

To read the full abstract: J Endocrine Society 2020; 4 (2): 1–13. doi: 10.1210/jendso/bvz013• The authors performed a retrospective analysis of the economic burden in a cohort of 195 patients with genetically confirmed CAH born in São Paulo where there is presently no neonatal screening for CAH.• The cost associated to mortality of undiagnosed patients was estimated to ra...

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...