ESPE Abstracts

Background: Coping skills are very important for the management of developmental changes among young people, and especially so, for adolescents with chronic diseases such as type 1 diabetes (T1DM).Objective and hypotheses: To study the various coping behaviours in a sample of children and adolescents with T1DM and to evaluate their association with metabolic control and duration of disease.Method: The study population consisted of ...

Background: Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a rare autosomal ciliopathy characterised by retinal dystrophy, obesity, post-axial polydactyly, renal anomalies, mental retardation and hypogonadism as well as minor features, which include diabetes mellitus, cardiac dysfunction and behavioural abnormalities. Hypertriglyceridaemia in BBS patients has not been reported to date.Objective and hypotheses: Presentation of the diagnosis and treatment of hypertriglice...

Background: A greater number of male (M) vs female (F) patients are diagnosed with GH deficiency (GHD). M have larger birth weight (BW), length and head circumference (HC) compared to F; these characteristics could contribute to subtle cephalo-pelvic disproportion and mild head trauma possibly contributing to idiopathic GHD (IGHD) and multiple pituitary hormone deficiencies (MPHD).Objective: To determine birth characteristics including mode of delivery a...

Background: The aim of this study was to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on behaviors and subsequent changes in BMI in children from southern Poland.Methods: The study included 206 participants (104 females and 102 males) with a complete analysis of 177 (96 females and 81 males) with a mean age of 12.8 ± 2.6 years admitted to three pediatric endocrinology clinics (Rzeszów, Kraków, and ...

Background: Glucose monitoring is vital in children with persistent hypoglycaemia to reduce the risk of adverse neuro-behavioural outcomes1. Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems provide real-time glucose levels however; information on its usefulness in monitoring glucose levels in this cohort is limited2, 3.Objective: To ascertain the effectiveness of CGM and to evaluate parents’ experie...

Background: Turner syndrome (TS) predisposes to obesity and related metabolic disorders and presents a high risk of congenital heart defects. Growth hormone (GH) treatment used in TS girls also affects the parameters of carbohydrate-lipid metabolism. Thus, the search for new markers that could be early predictors of metabolic disorders seems to be justified.Objective and Method: The assessment and comparison of MMP-1, MMP-2, MMP-9 (matri...

Background: In 2022, 1.52 million children and adolescents worldwide were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). During COVID-19, diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) episodes in newly-onset and established cases increased in 44.2% and 30.1% of paediatric diabetes centres, respectively. In 2017-2019, 1,249 children were diagnosed with T1DM in Indonesia, and 70% were diagnosed with DKA at diagnosis in 2017. Changing Diabetes in Children (CDiC) is a public-priva...

Background: Diazoxide therapy is used as first line treatment in hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia (HH). Apart from a single study reporting efficacy of low dose diazoxide in small for gestational age (SGA) infants, diazoxide has been reported to be used in doses of 5-20 mg/kg/day [1].Objective: To report the outcomes of infants with HH responsive to low dose diazoxide (≤5mg/kg/day).Method...

Background: The timing of puberty is influenced by different factors, one of which is body composition. The aim of the current study was to investigate if anthropometric indicators of body composition, body mass index(BMI), waist circumference(WC), subscapular skinfold(SSF) and body fat percentage(BF%) were differentially associated with occurrence of breast development, pubic hair and menarche in Norwegian girls.Methods:</strong...

Objective: Very small embryonic/epiblast&dash;like stem cells (VSELs), found in human bone marrow and other adult tissues, also in circulating blood are small, non-hematopoietic cells expressing markers of pluripotent embryonic and primordial germ cells. VSELs are responsible for postnatal tissue and organ rejuvenation. It was reported that VSELs decreased after prolonged GH or IGF-1 administration in experimental animals and after prolonged IGF-1 administrati...