ESPE Abstracts

Background: The gastrointestinal (GI) tract plays a central role in maintaining energy balance and body weight regulation. These functions are mediated by the secretion of gut hormones, including ghrelin, cholecystokinin (CCK), peptide YY(PYY), oxyntomodulin (OXM) and many other hormones. Some of them are orexigenic hormones that promote food intake, while others act as satiety signals and enhance insulin secretion from the pancreatic beta cells. Current evide...

Background: Emerging evidence suggests a link between the intestinal microbiota and cardiometabolic outcomes in both children and adults. The oral microbiota is less studied, and the association between the oral microbiota and cardiometabolic health in childhood remains largely unknown.Objective: To explore the associations between oral microbiota diversity measured at 8-10 yr and cardiometabolic health in childhood and ...

Introduction: Maternal perinatal mental disorders (PMDs) are associated with developmental and behavioral problems in the offspring, probably mediated by the programming of the limbic-hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (LHPA) axis. Increased or decreased cortisol concentrations during pregnancy and the perinatal period have been associated with alterations in the stress responses of the offspring and with child behavioral problems; however, such associations remain unclear.<p ...

Background: Estimation of the child’s genetic height potential (target height) is an important tool in evaluating growth disorders. Midparental height (MPH) calculated as (Mothers height+Fathers height)/2±6.5 cm), used for this purpose, represents the child’s expected height based on parental heights.Objective and hypotheses: To evaluate the classical MPH calculations for our population and to explore the optimal MPH model using different ...

Introduction: It is thought that sex hormone binding protein (SHBG) is involved in glucose homeostasis in addition to regulate the levels of sex hormones. Clinical studies associate reduced SHBG concentrations with insulin resistance (IR).Objective: To evaluate the relationship of SHBG with IR and hyperandrogenism markers in a group of adolescents affected with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), and how weight could affect these markers.<p class="ab...

Background: Children and adolescents with obesity often have insulin resistance (IR) and are at increased risk to develop coronary heart disease (CHD) in adulthood. The triglyceride to HDL-cholesterol (TG/HDL-C) ratio reflects small, dense low-density lipoprotein (LDL), an atherogenic lipoprotein particle that strongly predicts CHD.Objective and hypotheses: To evaluate the TG/HDL-C ratio in obese children and adolescents and study the relationship with a...

Introduction: Bone mineral density (BMD) is affected not only by genetic and enviromental causes, but various hormonal factors. It seems reasonable to seek for dependencies between BMD and paediatric endocrinopathies. The aim of the study was to assess the frequency of decreased BMD in children with several endocrinological disorders and evaluate the influence of selected auxological and hormonal parameters on their BMD.Materials...

Introduction: The European Registries for Rare Endocrine Conditions (EuRRECa) was created in collaboration with the European Reference Network on Rare Endocrine Conditions (Endo-ERN), the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and the European Society of Endocrinology to support the needs of the endocrine community.Aim: To describe the patient population and data entered in the EuRRECa Core Registry between June 2...

Introduction: Homozygous leptin (LEP) and leptin receptor (LEPR) mutations lead to childhood-onset obesity due to deficient leptin signaling. The specific aims of this work are to explore genotype/phenotype correlations in a national multicenter cohort of 18 subjects with leptin (LEP) and leptin receptor (LEPR) deficiency, report on the long-term clinical follow-up of these rare cases, and systematically review all patients with pathogenic <e...

Introduction: Peripheral precocious puberty is a non-gonadotropin-dependent early pubertal development. Exogenous intake of sex steroids, gonadal or adrenal pathologies, ectopic hCG-secreting lesions play a role in the etiology. Adrenal tumors is a rare cause of heterosexual precocious puberty.Case: An eight-year-old female patient was admitted with the complaints of genital hair growth and breast enlargement. The patien...