ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

Preface: As in previous years, in this year’s chapter we can present only 1% of the acquired publications (1326) according to our search criteria in PubMed in the Yearbook 2022. The last year has again been extremely exciting for the field of obesity and weight regulation, and it was a significant step into the future in terms of scientific output. The papers included in this chapter of the Yearbook are organized under these subheadings:• Genet...

We have been very happy to get around 2,000 papers out of our established search strategy in PubMed, which have been saved in our 2018 Yearbook EndNote database. We have then selected 20 papers (1%), which in our mind have been the most exciting ones. The highlights in this year’s chapter are publications about new adipokines - microRNAs released from adipose tissue and asprosin which has orexigenic and glucogenic activities - , about newly discovered genes causing monog...

PrefaceIn analogy to previous years, in this year’s chapter we can present only ~1% of the acquired publications according to our search criteria in Pubmed. The last year has again been extremely exciting for the field of obesity and weight regulation and it was a significant step into the future in terms of scientific output. Of course, one of the well-known phenomena of the past year has been a marked increase in child and adolescent body weights ...

Preface: We have been very happy to get around 1,500 papers out of our established search strategy in PubMed which have been saved in our 2019 yearbook EndNote database. We have then selected 15 papers (1%) which in our mind have been the most exciting ones. The highlights in this year’s chapter are publications about the genetic architecture of human thinness, a new hypoleptinemic leptin-responsive form of obesity, and early childhood BMI related to sustained risk of obe...