ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

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 2020 yearbook EndNote database. We have then selected 16 papers (1%) which in our mind have been the most exciting ones. The highlights in this year chapter are publications about new gene variants with major effects on weight regulation, updates on pharmacological and surgical treatment of obesity in adolescents. The Yearbook chapter 2020 o...

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 ...