ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Overt clinical symptoms of type 1 diabetes (T1D) are often preceded by a pre-clinical stage of varying duration. Diagnosis of the pre-clinical stage is difficult and is based on the presence of specific islet autoantibodies in the subject's blood. Objectives: Apparently healthy first-degree relatives of patients with T1D were tested using the 3 Screen ICAELISA (RSR Ltd) for combined testing for autoantibodies to GAD65 (glutamic acid decarbox...

Background and Aims: A pre-clinical stage of type 1 diabetes (T1D) often precedes by many years the overt clinical symptoms. Diagnosis during this period is often difficult and is based on the presence of specific islet autoantibodies in the subject's blood. First-degree relatives of patients with T1D were tested using the 3 Screen ICA TM ELISA (RSR Ltd) for combined testing for autoantibodies to GAD65 (glutamic acid decarboxylase, 65kDa isoform), ZnT8 (z...

Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in obese children is a diagnostic challenge. Presently recommended markers of liver steatosis and risk of progression to fibrosis are: ultrasound imaging (US) and liver aminotransferases (ALT and AST). Owing to the poor sensitivity of these tests, there is a need to search for biomarkers which could indicate early stages of NAFLD. The enhanced liver fibrosis test (ELF) based on the combination of serum concentration of hyal...

Background: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common endocrine disorder of the young women, and it could influence both physical and psychological wellbeing. As a consequence of obesity and hirsutism lower sexual attractiveness, higher emotional distress as well as higher depression score is frequently observed.Study Objective was to evaluate anxiety and depression score as well as the body esteem and stress perception ...

Background: Chemerin is an adipocytokine which plays a great role in metabolism of carbohydrates. Chemerin concentration correlates positively with body mass (BM). GH deficiency (GHD) is associated with excess of abdominal fat tissue also in patients with normal BMI.Objective and hypotheses: To estimate the chemerin concentration and its correlation with BM and carbohydrate metabolism in non-obese, prepubertal children with isolated GHD before (GHD untre...

Background: GH deficiency (GHD) is usually associated with excess of abdominal fat tissue and increased risk of developing cardiovascular diseases. Adipose tissue produces different adipocytokines that could explain the relationship between excess of fat tissue and increased metabolic risk. Adipsin, omentin and vaspin are adipocytokines which are still not well examined.Objective and hypotheses: To estimate the effect of 6 months GH therapy on serum conc...

Background: Both, obesity and hyperandrogenism are the conditions that can influence many different health domains, also may affect the mental and social wellbeing components of subject’s life.Study objective: To evaluate whether body weight status and clinical hyperandrogenism may influence social competencies and psychological gender features in adolescent girls.Design & participants: In 104 adolescent girls clinical eva...

Introduction: Graves'disease (GD) is a polygenic and multifactorial disease.The innate immune system is a complex network of structured cells and proteins, including the Toll-like receptors (TLRs), which are also expressed on the cells of the adaptive immune system.The aim was to assess the relationship between the expression of TLR-2 on the surface of T CD4+ and CD8+ lymphocytes in pat...

Introduction: Diabetes type 1 (DM1) in children can result in lipid disorders due to insulin deficiency. Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is a very common monogenic disorder with occurrence of 1:250 and it may lead to development of cardiovascular disease (CAD) in a very young age.Case report: Female patient with diabetes diagnosed at the age of 5, was referred to joint diabetes and lipid clinic due to high levels of ...

Background: It is observed from nearly 50 years that the incidence of diabetes worldwide is increasing. Also the incidence of type 1 diabetes, which is most common in paediatric population, rises across Europe.Objective and hypotheses: The aim of the study was to analyze the incidence of type 1 diabetes in Poland in Pomeranian province in the years 2005, 2010 and 2015. The hypothesis was an increased incidence of type 1 diabetes.Me...