ESPE Abstracts

Objectives: Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state (HHS) are potential life-threatening emergencies of diabetes mellitus (DM). DKA and HHS may coexist, making the treatment difficult. With increasing rates of childhood obesity and pediatric type 2 DM, cases of mixed HHS and DKA are expected to occur more frequently than before. But the frequency and implications of combined DKA/HHS in children/adolescents are not yet well known. We ai...

Purpose: Since the COVID-19 outbreak, the number of obese children and adolescents has increased rapidly. Obesity acts as a gateway to chronic adult diseases, so proper management during childhood and adolescence is essential. We aimed to identify the interannual changes in the prevalence of obesity, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and hypertension, and to investigate factors contributing to these changes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.<p class="...

Background: This study aim ed to compare the response to growth hormone (GH) therapy according to the presence of GH deficiency (GHD) in short-stature children born small for gestational age (SGA) in Korea and to present appropriate GH dose criteria.Methods: We evaluated 27 children born SGA with short stature and GHD (GHD group) and 23 without GHD (non-GHD group) registered in the LG Growth Study. Growth responses and c...