ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Adequate nutritional status of adolescents is essential for their healthy development, with health repercussions in both short-term and adult life.Objective: To analyze the temporal trends of the BMI of Brazilian adolescents (10 to 19 years old) between 2010 and 2022.Patients and methods: Descriptive ecological study. Data obtained from e-SUS Primary Care. The BMI cat...

Introduction: The good nutritional status of children in the first years of life is essential for their healthy growth and development. Evaluating the repercussions of nutritional status is fundamental since nutrition can influence both short-term and adult life.Objective: To analyze the temporal trends of the BMI of Brazilian children aged 0 to 5 between 2010 and 2022.Patients and methods:...

Introduction: Vitamin D (VitD) is a prohormone that is synthesized in the skin after sun exposure. Mandatory lockdown during the COVID-19 Pandemic may have altered the sun exposure time of children.Aim: to evaluate vitD levels in a sample of children and adolescents, and compare between pre-pandemic and pandemic periods.Methoths Children and adolescents, from a Portuguese tertiary ...

Background and Aims: In light of the recent evidence suggesting an increase in idiopathic central precocious puberty (ICPP) cases during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study aimed to assess the proportion of patients referred for precocious puberty (PP) and, within this group, the number of ICPP cases diagnosed before and during the pandemic. Additionally, we compared the demographic, anthropometric, and clinical characteristics of ICPP patients between the two g...

Introduction: The Body Mass Index (BMI) is an essential indicator for the nutritional assessment of children and reflects the exposure to health conditions that are harmful to the development of this population.Objective: To analyze the temporal trend of the BMI of Brazilian children, 0 to < 10 years old from 2010 to 2021.Methods: Descriptive ecological study. Data obtained from...

Introduction: Identifying the nutritional diagnosis of adolescents is crucial for developing public health strategies that promote the adequate development of this population.Objective: To analyze the temporal trends of the BMI of Brazilian adolescents (10 to 19 years old) between 2010 and 2021.Methods: Descriptive ecological study. Data obtained from e-SUS Primary Care. The preval...

Background: Estrogen is an essential regulator of bone maturation, growth plate fusion, and cessation of longitudinal growth. Aromatase inhibitors (AI) block the conversion of androgens to estrogens, and can be used to delay bone maturation in males.Objective and hypotheses: We sought to determine whether the blockage of estrogen biosynthesis due to the use of the AI Anastrazole increases the Predicted Adult Height (PAH) in boys with short stature.<p...

Background: Growth is a complex process influenced by several genetic factors both pre and postnatal, in which 80% of the height variation is explained by genetic factors. Nevertheless, the standard medical evaluation of short stature (SS) relies upon physical examination and laboratory parameters and identifies a pathological cause of SS in 1–40% of individuals. Recent advances in genetic diagnosis are revolutionizing the clinician’s ability to obtain a molecular di...

Background: A compromised final height (FH) is a concern in patients diagnosed with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). The lack of achievement of the genetic target height (TH) can be attributed to treatment with high doses of corticosteroids and high levels of adrenal androgens. Despite the emergence of new therapeutic modalities such as the use of anti-androgens and growth hormone it has been shown that a favorable FH can be achieved with careful use of corticosteroids.</...

Background: Several studies have suggested that vitamin D supplementation in early childhood is successful in decreasing the risk of type 1 diabetes (T1D) through a complex immunomodulatory role. However, Intervening in disease once clinical symptoms have appeared and autoreactive immune responses are active might be more challenging. Controlled trials with vitamin D supplementation in recent-onset T1D have shown mixed results.Objective and hypotheses: T...