ESPE Abstracts

Background: Children born small for gestational age (SGA) are predisposed to metabolic abnormalities. While the therapeutic benefit of recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) therapy in improving height is widely recognised, it can affect carbohydrate metabolism, potentially inducing diabetes.Objective and hypotheses: This ongoing, prospective study aims to evaluate the long-term safety and efficacy of Omnitrope® (somatropin) in children ...

Background: The benefit of recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) in improving height is widely recognised; however, rhGH therapy can affect carbohydrate metabolism and lead to impaired glucose tolerance during treatment. In addition, short children born SGA are predisposed to metabolic abnormalities. This study assessed the long-term safety of growth hormone (Omnitrope®) use in short children born SGA for up to 10 years after the end of treat...

Background: Short children born SGA are predisposed to metabolic abnormalities. While the benefit of recombinant human growth hormone in improving height is widely recognised, it can affect carbohydrate metabolism and lead to impaired glucose tolerance during treatment. This ongoing, prospective study is assessing the long-term safety and efficacy of Omnitrope® (somatropin) in children born SGA. Here we present data from an interim analysis con...

Background: Children exposed to gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in utero have higher risk of development of glucose intolerance and diabetes mellitus.Objective and hypotheses: The study was undertaken to assess the selected carbohydrate parameters in children exposed to gestational diabetes in utero.Method: 50 children exposed to gestational diabetes were compared with 46 control subjects. Anthropometric parameters of a newborn...

Background: Central precocious puberty (CPP) results from activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis before the age of 8 years in girls and 9 years in boys. The molecular basis of the maturation of this axis is still poorly understood. The MRKN3 gene located in the Prader-Willi syndrome critical region (chromosome 15q11–q13), inhibit factors stimulating pulsative. GnRH secretion. In 2013 inactivating mutations in the MRKN3 gene were discovered...

Introduction: Recent studies have revealed the presence of zinc and the expression of zinc transporter (ZnT) family members in most endocrine cell types. Moreover it was demonstrated that the ZnT family plays an important role in the synthesis and secretion of many hormones like insulin. We studied the prevalence of ZnT8 Ab in patients with autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD).Material and methods: The study was performed in the group consisting of 20 Grav...

Background: Achondroplasia is a genetic disorder that belongs to a large group of skeletal dysplasias that is caused by a missense mutation in the gene encoding FGFR-3 resulting in its constitutive upregulating. This interferes with the receptor's tyrosine kinase domain causing inhibition of cartilage tissue cells and the formation of abnormalities in the bone growth plate leading to defective skeletal development and a disproportionately short stature wi...

Introduction: Overt clinical symptoms of type 1 diabetes (T1D) are often preceded by a pre-clinical stage of varying duration. Diagnosis of the pre-clinical stage is difficult and is based on the presence of specific islet autoantibodies in the subject's blood. Objectives: Apparently healthy first-degree relatives of patients with T1D were tested using the 3 Screen ICAELISA (RSR Ltd) for combined testing for autoantibodies to GAD65 (glutamic acid decarbox...