ESPE Abstracts

Background: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most prevalent chronic behavioral disorder among children. No definite pathology is yet defined for this disorder and findings are in favor of multifactorial hypothesis.Aims: This study was performed with the aim of determining the association between vitamin D serum levels and ADHD among 6-14 year-old children referring to Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex during 2014–2015 in Tehran, I...

Background: Treatment with the gonadotropin – releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist is the treatment of choice for central precocious puberty (CPP).Objective and hypotheses: Concept have been expressed that GNRH treatment may be associated with increased BMI and it is controversial in some studies.Method: We studied the height, weight, and BMI of 52 girls that the majority of them had CPP. All patients were treated with GNRH analog...

Background: There is increasing evidence of vitamin D deficiency world-wide resulting in nutritional rickets. With increasing use of fast foods and reducing appropriate physical activity. Our world is encountered with the problem of obesity which increases the risk of 25-hyroxy vitamin D deficiency.Objective and hypotheses: The aim of this study was to determine the status of serum 25(OH)D level in children 2–14 years old who visited in a pediatric ...