ESPE Abstracts

Background: An elevated anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) level might serve as a noninvasive screening or diagnostic test for PCOS in adolescents.Objective and hypotheses: We explored whether the AMH levels of adolescents with PCOS, ‘at-risk-of-PCOS’, and isolated oligomenorrhea, differed from those of adolescents with normal menstrual cycles, and we identified an AMH level that was potentially diagnostic of PCOS.Method: ...

Background: It is difficult to define the laboratory finding of hyperandrogenism and associate it with clinical findings in children and adolescents. Androgen levels can be high in obesity, hirsutism, and PCOS. The free androgen index (FAI) is a simple ratio used to evaluate the biologically active testosteroneObjective and hypotheses: Our aim was to determine the FAI in adolescent females and to evaluated how this index is influenced in adolescents diag...

Background: A 5 years and 10 months boy presented with pubic hair, recent penile growth, aggressive behaviour and rapid growth of height. Antenatal, perinatal, and developmental history was unremarkable. There was no family history of precocious puberty. His height and weight were 128 cm (2.24 S.D.) and 25 kg (1.55 S.D.) respectively. Vital signs were normal. He was Tanner 2 for pubic hair and his stretched penis length was 11 cm, right testis vol...

Background: Euthyroid sick syndrome (ESS), also known as non-thyroidal illness or low T3 syndrome, is defined as low T3, low/normal T4 and inability of rise in TSH due to extrathyroidal diseases. Any condition resulting stress such as infectious diseases, sepsis, metabolic disorders and severe malnutrition can associate to ESS. Patients presented with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) are usually being screened for other autoimmune diseases inclu...

Introduction: Virilization and hirsutism are clinical findings of androjen excess in females mostly due to polycystic ovary syndrome, although androgenic drugs, nonclassic congenital adrenal hyperplasia and androgen secreting adrenal/ovarian lesions are also implicated. 46, XX ovotesticular disorder of sex development (DSD) is the rarest form of DSD with an incidence of less than 1 in 20000.Case report: A 15-year-old ado...

Objective: Several studies have shown that sleep plays an important role as a modulator of metabolic homeostasis. Indeed, hundreds of studies have been published to examine the relationship between insufficient sleep, late bedtime and obesity. We have studied bedtime snack as another parameter. We suggested that it may be a risk factor for obesity. When we looked at the literature, we could not find any study about bedtime snack in childhood, but there are a few studies in adu...

Objective: Sedentary lifestyle obviously increases the risk of obesity. Reduced physical activity and increased screen-time seem to act as major determinants of the rapid increase of childhood obesity. Prevention of obesity is easier and more practical in comparison with treatment of obesity and its complications. Treatment of childhood obesity not only carries positive biopsychosocial consequences for the child but also serves as an important public health issue by preventing...

Objectives: Data on the role of gluten in type 1 diabetes (T1D) pathogenesis are scarce. We aimed to test whether gluten-free diet (GFD) can decelerate the decline in beta-cell capacity in newly diagnosed non-coeliac T1D children.Methods: Forty six children (aged 10.2±3.3 years) were recruited into this non-randomized self-selected intervention trial: 26 started with GFD, whereas 20 remained on standard diet. Main o...