ESPE Abstracts

Objective: To study the effect of orexin deficiency on metabolic and pubertal characteristics in narcoleptic children, we compared the metabolic and pubertal alterations between 15 children with narcolepsy with cataplexy (NC) and 15 control children matched for age, body mass index (BMI) z score.Method: Narcoleptic data were collected from the Reference Center for Narcolepsy and control common obese data from the department of pediatric endocrinology in ...