ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2020 Dec 1;105(12):dgaa633. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgaa633. PMID: 32898218.In this study, low risk pregnant women had an ‘early’ OGTT at 18-20 weeks of gestation and these results were correlated with the standard OGTT at 24-28 weeks. Pregnant women with Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) who had early OGTT still had a higher risk of delivering macrosomic in...

J Clin Oncol. 2022 Apr 1;40(10):1081-1090. doi: 10.1200/JCO.21.01861. Epub 2022 Jan 11. PMID: 35015563Brief Summary: This retrospective monocenter study of clinical, pathological and molecular analysis of n=113 children with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) showed that genetic analysis of DTC provided more accurate information on prognosis and outcome than classical histological categorizatio...

kirsty.spalding@ki.se Nat Med 2021; 27(11): 1941–1953 doi: 10.1038/s41591-021-01501-8Brief Summary: This study analysed adipocytes from obese and hyperinsulinemic adults. They demonstrate that obesity is associated with the induction of a cell cycle program in mature adipocytes, leading to so-called endoreplication, as a strategy to remain fu...

Cell Rep. 2022 Jan 25;38(4):110298. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110298Brief Summary: This study describes the cryo-EM structure of human ATP Binding Cassette Subfamily G Member 1 (ABCG1) in complex with cholesterol. The authors propose a structural mechanism whereby cholesterol is recruited from cell membranes by sphingomyelin and loaded on nascent HDL particles.ABC...

To read the full abstract: Cell 2019;177 (3):59–-607.e9. PMID 31002796.A recent GWAS showed that the heritability of thinness was comparable to that of obesity (1). Some loci showed effects across the entire BMI distribution. This is also true for variants in MC4R. The present study analyzed data on ˜0.5 million people from UK Biobank, with a focus on 61 nonsynonymous var...

To read the full abstract: PLoS Med. 2019 Oct 1;16(10):e1002926. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002926.The authors analysed a huge dataset from the Chinese national programme of preconception health checks, which include measurements of fasting plasma glucose. Overall, 13.15% (n =847,737) had impaired fasting glucose and 1.18% (n =76,297 women) had diabetes, of whom only...

To read the full abstract: Nat Commun. 2018 19;9:2394.“Somatopause” causes the physiological decline over time in GH secretion leading to low IGF-I levels in aging subjects. GH has been proposed as an anti-aging therapy, but with no evidence of beneficial effects and with some potential risks [1,2]. Therefore, current guidelines do not recommend GH therapy as anti-aging treatme...

Abstract: Nature. 2018 Oct;562(7725):133–139.In brief: A newly discovered periosteal stem cell pool with features distinct from other skeletal mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) is present in murine and human bone and reveals a pivotal function in intramembranous ossification, cortical bone architecture and fracture healing in conditional knockout mouse strains.</st...

To read the full abstract: Genome Res 2018;28:423–431The discovery of a mummified humanoid female skeleton on a shelf in a building in La Noria, Chile in 2003 created enormous scientific and popular interest. Its highly unusual appearance included a length of only 6 inches despite a bone age of 6–7 years old, marked turricephaly (a cone-shaped top of the skull), and reduced number...

To read the full abstract: JAMA 2017 Jun 6;317(21):2207-2225Excessive and insufficient gestational weight gain are associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes, including small for gestational age (SGA), large for gestational age (LGA), macrosomia, cesarean delivery, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), preeclampsia, postpartum weight retention, and offspring obesity. The Institute of Medicine (IO...