ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Most of the oral medications available for treating type 2 diabetes (T2DM) have not been studied in children. T2DM in pediatric patients is usually treated with metformin and insulin. The use of other oral antidiabetic drugs is not clearly delineated in T2DM in children although potentially useful.Case report: A 13 year-old girl, presented with polyuria, polydipsia and weight loss (5 kg) for 2 weeks before presentation. Her Weight=65.7 kg, ...

Anthropometric somatotype components show significant resemblance in monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic twins (DZ) twins within each sex with a greater resemblance within MZ twin pairs than within DZ twin pairs. In many studies a significant positive correlation was found between the parental height and the height of girls with TS.This girl with Turner syndrome {46, X, i(Xq) presented at the age of 7.5 years for evaluation of her short stature. Her clinical ...