ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

kuzawa@northwestern.edu Int J Obes (Lond). 2022 May;46(5):1044–1050. doi: 10.1038/s41366-022-01065-8. Epub 2022 Feb 8. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35136192/Brief Summary: This cross-sectional study measured total cerebral blood flow (TCBF) by MRI in 82 healthy individuals (ages 0&#...

joelh@broadinstitute.org Obesity (Silver Spring). 2021 Nov;29(11):1899–1906. doi: 10.1002/oby.23271. Epub 2021 Sep 21. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34549538/Brief Summary: This longitudinal study assessed body composition in a cohort of children at ages 1, 3, and 6 months and 4 years (n...

mirwig@bidmc.harvard.edu Int J Obes (Lond). 2021 Dec;45(12):2562–2569. doi: 10.1038/s41366-021-00935-x. Epub 2021 Aug 16. PMID: 34400797. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34400797/Brief Summary: This retrospective chart review of 470 ethnically diverse transgender and gender diverse in...

Ashley.H.Shoemaker@VUMC.org International Journal of Obesity 2022, Epub 2022 Jan 3. doi: 10.1038/s41366-021-01043-6. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34975146/Brief Summary: This double-blind, placebo-controlled trial assessed the efficacy of 36 weeks of GLP1RA treatment with exenatide e...

sumudu@pdt.cmb.ac.lk BMC Pediatrics 2021 21:262. doi: 10.1186/s12887-021-02742-9Brief Summary: This questionnaire-based case control study showed that girls with classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) had more masculinized gender-role behaviour (GRB) and a tendency for ambiguous gender-identity (GI) compared to healthy children. The most li...

Scientific Reports (2022)12:3135 doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-07122-6Brief Summary: This case cohort study, based on the Danish National Birth Cohort (DNBC) with ~100 000 women and their children, investigated whether maternal smoking in pregnancy is associated with child BMI and risk for child overweight, independent of maternal pre-pregnancy BMI, genetic predisposition to adiposity and socio-...

Endocr Rev. 2021 Oct 13;bnab036. PMID: 34644386 doi: 10.1210/endrev/bnab036Brief Summary: This comprehensive review summarizes the current knowledge on the spectrum of endocrine disorders associated with mitochondrial disease. It provides essential information on the basics and genetics of mitochondrial diseases and details the clinical characteristics, focusing on endocrine and important non-...

Nature. 2022;602(7898):632-8. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04408-7.PubMed ID: 35140404Brief summary: This study in the fruit-fly, Drosophila melanogaster, identified a novel gut-derived, nutrient-specific neuropeptide hormone, ‘Diuretic hormone 31’ (Dh31), which triggers the insects to switch their behaviour from feeding to courtship and reproduction.Romantic di...

Nat Med. 2022;28(4):814-22. doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-01714-5.PubMed ID: 35314841Brief summary: This study performed large-scale metabolomic profiling across 14 000 adults from 4 cohorts and identified 17 steroid metabolites whose levels were reduced in individuals with prevalent asthma. The largest reductions were associated with inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) treatment, and these were valida...

To read the full abstract: J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2020 Apr 1;105(4). PMID: 32170320In congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) there is dysregulation of insulin secretion that leads to persistent hypoglycaemia. Mutations in the ABCC8/KCNJ11 genes which encode the pancreatic KATP channels proteins (SUR1/KIR6.2 respectively) are the most common causes of CHI. Mutations ...