ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

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...

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...