ESPE Abstracts

Aims: To assess trend in the prevalence of severe obesity in a national population-based sample of adolescents and to evaluate the association of severe obesity with major cardio-metabolic morbidities.Methods: Prevalence and severity of obesity was determined among 373,226 Israeli adolescents with abnormal BMI (≥85th percentile for age and sex) examined in an obligatory health assessment at mean age 17.3±0.5 years between 1967 and 2...

Background: RePPOP Aquitaine (network of prevention and treatment of pediatric obesity in southwest France) has developed a multidisciplinary approach to treat childhood obesity based on multicomponent lifestyle interventions and family-based actions.Objective and hypotheses: This study assessed the impact of the care management proposed by RePPOP Aquitaine and investigated factors associated with better outcomes.Method: The impact...

Background: Leprechaunism (Donohue syndrome) is an extremely rare AR disease that presents with special phenotypic features including severe type of insulin resistance with high mortality in infancy.Case study: R 3 ½ months old Syrian girl, born at 35 weeks of gestation with Asymmetrical IUGR. She developed hyperglycemia from day1 of life >150 mg/dl (350+/−60 mg/dl) and her serum insulin and c-peptide were very high (772 uU/ml and 29.9 ng/...