ESPE Abstracts

Background: South Korea is one of the adequate or excessive iodine nutritional state countries and high-iodine intake is related to papillary thyroid cancer. The prevalence of thyroid cancer of South Korea has increased and the proportion of thyroid papillary cancer has increased as 97.9–98.3% in 2010. Childhood thyroid cancer is rare, and the prevalence of thyroid cancer in pediatric population was reported as 20–26% of thyroid nodules worldwide. However, there have...

Background: Retinol binding protein 4 (RBP4) and adiponectin are known to be related with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.Objective and hypotheses: This study was aimed at investigating (RBP4) and adiponectin secretion in obese Korean children and adolescents with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes (T2DM).Method: Nine obese children and adolescents with newly diagnosed T2DM (DM group) and ten obese age-matched subjects without ...

Objective: The role of incretins in type 2 diabetes (T2D) is controversial. This study investigated the association between incretin levels in obese Korean children and adolescents with T2D.Patients and methods: We performed a 2-h oral glucose tolerance test in obese children and adolescents with T2D and with normal glucose tolerance. Twelve obese children and adolescents with newly diagnosed T2D (DM group) and 12 obese age-matched subjects without T2D (...