ESPE Abstracts

Background: Over the last thirty years, the incidence of adolescent obesity has quadrupled. While the physical risks of adolescent obesity have been well researched, there has been little research on its impact on mental health status and cognitive abilities. In the present study, we intend to examine whether nutritional intervention and weight loss affect executive functions and levels of depression of adolescent girls with overweight/obesity (OW/OB).<p c...

Objectives: Several case reports describe hypertension (HTN) in children treated with GnRH analogs for central precocious puberty (CPP). However, relevant data on blood pressure (BP) under GnRH analog treatment are scarce. We evaluated BP among girls with idiopathic CPP and early puberty (EP) before, during and after GnRH analog therapy, and examined associations of BP with clinical parameters.Design: A retrospective longitudinal cohort ...