ESPE Abstracts

Background: Excessive gain in fat mass (FM) during the first months of life, known as the critical window for adiposity programming, is associated with an increased risk for adiposity and cardiovascular diseases in later life. Early life nutrition (breastfeeding or formula feeding) might influence body composition (FM and fat free mass (FFM)) development in early life.Aims: To investigate differences in sex-specific long...

Introduction & Objectives: Fat and fructose-rich nutrition bring many metabolic diseases, especially obesity and diabetes. Recent years, more scientific interest in how can diet effect on brain function has emerged. We aimed to investigate the effect of high fructose and high-fat diet on the brain, and whether the presence of relationship with advanced glycation end products histologically, in rat model.Materials & Method...

Giant prolactinomas are rare tumours, with a prevalence of 0.5–4.4% among all pituitary tumours. In the literature, relatively few series describing their management and outcomes are available; moreover, only individual case reports of giant prolactinomas in children have been documented. We report a 10-year-old boy presented with painless progressive vision loss, insidious in onset, and bitemporal headache of six mounths duration. On physical examination; height: 134.2 ...