ISSN 1662-4009 (online)

ey0017.14-13 | (1) | ESPEYB17

14.13. Screen of traditional soup broths with reported antipyretic activity towards the discovery of potential antimalarials

U Straschil , K Witmer , MJ Delves , SD Marks , JChildren of Eden Primary School Baum

To read the full abstract: Arch Dis Child. 2019 Dec;104(12):1138-1142. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2019-317590.Many effective drugs originated from traditional remedies. The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Tu Youyou, whose work underpinned the development of the anti-malarial drug artemisinin by isolating the active ingredient of ‘Qinghao’, which ...

ey0017.10-8 | (1) | ESPEYB17

10.8. An anti-CD3 antibody, teplizumab, in relatives at risk for type 1 diabetes

KC Herold , BN Bundy , SA Long , JA Bluestone , LA DiMeglio , MJ Dufort , SE Gitelman , PA Gottlieb , JP Krischer , PS Linsley , JB Marks , W Moore , A Moran , H Rodriguez , WE Russell , D Schatz , JS Skyler , E Tsalikian , DK Wherrett , AG Ziegler , CJ Greenbaum , Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet Study Group

To read the full abstract: N Engl J Med. 2019 Aug 15;381(7):603–613. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa 1902226.Type 1 diabetes (T1DM) is a chronic autoimmune disease that leads to destruction of insulin producing beta cells, which leaves the patient dependent on exogenous insulin for survival. Some interventions have delayed the loss of insulin production in T1DM, but interventions to prevent clinic...

ey0020.10-2 | New Data on the Epidemiology of T2D in Children | ESPEYB20

10.2. The Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic is associated with a substantial rise in frequency and severity of presentation of youth-onset type 2 diabetes

SN Magge , RM Wolf , L Pyle , EA Brown , VC Benavides , ME Bianco , LC Chao , A Cymbaluk , PG Balikcioglu , K Halpin , DS Hsia , L Huerta-Saenz , JJ Kim , S Kumar , LE Levitt--Katz , BE Marks , A Neyman , KL O'Sullivan , SS Pillai , AS Shah , AH Shoemaker , JAW Siddiqui , S Srinivasan , IH Thomas , JB Tryggestad , MF Yousif , MM Kelsey , COVID-19 and Type 2 Diabetes Consortium Kelsey

Brief summary: A significant increase in the incidence T2D occurred in the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among children with obesity and males.Comment: This is the first multicenter report on the incidence of T2D during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA. The average number of new diagnoses per year in the two pre-pandemic years was 825, compared with 1463 during the first pandemic year. This increase of 77% is significan...