ESPE Abstracts

Background: Growth hormone (GH) treatment requires long-term self-management and optimized recombinant-human growth hormone (r-hGH) prescription. Patient support programs (PSPs) are vital in educating, providing personalised support to caregivers and enhancing patient care to achieve optimal growth outcomes. Nurse-led PSP calls using behavior change techniques (BCTs) and motivational interviewing principles have demonstrated a meaningful behavior change across...

Background: We evaluated 12 months follow-up of thyroid function in patients who underwent hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) during childhood and adolescents.Methods: We studied 83 hematologic-malignancy patients (46 boys and 37 girls, acute lymphoblastic leukemia=25, acute myeloid leukemia=51, chronic myelogenous leukemia=7) who underwent HSCT between January 2006 and December 2011.The mean age at HSCT was 9.78±4...

Background: Childhood obesity is a major health concern. Exposure to environmental chemicals may play a role in childhood obesity.Objective and hypotheses: We investigated whether urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations was associated with overweight or obese status in 4-year-old children.Method: Forty-hundred thirteen children born as term, appropriate-for-gestational-age infants (226 males) were included in this study. BMI wa...

Introduction: Vitamin D deficiency in children is still a global health problem. Measuring free 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations could provide a better estimate of the vitamin D status than total 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels.Objective: To assess the relationship between measured free vitamin D (m-f25(OH)D) and calculated free 25(OH)D (c-f25(OH)D), total 25(OH)D, intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) and other markers of phosphocalcic metabolism. Es...

GX-H9 is a long-acting form of recombinant human GH under clinical development for both adults and children with GH deficiency (GHD). This study was designed to compare 12-month effects of once-weekly and twice-monthly (every other week; EOW) administration of GX-H9 treatment to that of Genotropin®, in pediatric patients with GHD. A randomized, open-label, active-controlled, parallel study was conducted at 27 endocrinology centers in 10 countries (Europe and Ko...

Background: Down syndrome (DS) is the most common genetic (chromosomal) mental retardation syndrome. In these patients, several environmental and hormonal factors contribute to low bone mineral density (BMD), among these factors, vitamin D may play a significant role in the health of patients with DS. However, poor studies have evaluated 25-hydroxy cholecalciferol (25(OH)D) levels in DS.Objective and hypotheses: The purpose of this study was to assess se...

Background: Simple obese is a worldwide public health problem. Recent studies suggested a possible relationship between obese and vitamin D deficiency.Objective and hypotheses: To discuss the relationship between 25-Hdroxyvitamin D with glucose and lipid metabolism of simple obese in Chinese children.Method: 65 children with obeses (35 mild-to-moderate, 50 severe) and sixty-two children with normal weight were enrolled in this tria...

Background: Few studies have assessed 25-hydroxy vitamin D [25(OH)D] status among Italian children.Objective and hypotheses: To assess 25(OH)D in children and adolescents living in Tuscany, Italy, identifing risk factors for vitamin D deficiency in different age groups.Method: We evaluated 446 children children and adolescents (2.4–17.8 years), from Mugello (latitude 44° N), and we determined 25(OH)D, calcium, alkaline ph...

Background: Neonatal vitamin D deficiency (VDD) can result in symptomatic hypocalcemia, seizures and cardiomyopathy and has been associated with reduced bone mineralization in childhood, but is potentially preventable with antenatal cholecalciferol supplementation. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in the vitamin D metabolism pathway are associated with serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] in adulthood. We assessed whether maternal and/or offspring SNPs in ...

Purpose: Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is very common nowadays in children as well as in adults, probably due to decreased exposure to sunlight. In Korea, the prevalence of VDD was 47% in teenage boys and 65% in teenage girls. However, the optimal dosage regimen for correcting deficiency is unknown. We investigate the change of serum 25(OH) vitamin D concentration according to the treatment dosage and duration in VDD.Methods...