ESPE Abstracts

Obesity is a state of imbalance between food intake and energy expenditure leading to a positive energy balance. This condition may be due to the existence of a genetic syndrome: the Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is the genetic cause the most common obesity and Laurence-Moon Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS), autosomal recessive.Objectives: Our objective is to compare the cardio-metabolic risk factors in children with obesity gene to those of ch...

Hypertension is a frequent chronic pathology in young diabetics. The association of diabetes and hypertension represents a high risk of morbidity and premature cardiovascular mortality. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of hypertension in young diabetics and to assess the associated morbid factors.Patients and Methods: 357 diabetics aged 3 to 27 years (mean age: 10 years), were followed at the Children's Hospital o...

Objectives: To study the status of vitamin D (25-hydroxyvitamin D, active form) in diabetic an non-diabetic children in comparison with that of Moroccan children who have immigrated to Italy.Material and Methods: 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels were measured by chemiluminescence during the spring-summer season.Patients and Methods: Our cohort consisted of 25 subjects including 17 (9 Boy...

The anomalies of sexual differentiation correspond to congenital chromosomal, gonadal or phenotypic atypia of sexual development that group together pathologies with an undifferentiated or poorly differentiated aspect of the external genitalia and/or internal, or a state of mismatch between external genitalia and internal organs genitalia. The objective of this work is to describe the epidemiological, clinical and metabolic biomarker profiles in patients with abnormalities of ...