ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Excessive exposure of children to electronic devices is related to an increased risk for diabetes and obesity and greater chance of developing visual and cognitive disorders.Objective: To understand the time spent with screens (cell phone, tablet, computer, and television) by children under 5 years old in Goiânia-Goiás-Brazil and analyze the consequent impacts of this habit and parental positio...

Background: Leptin is considered to play an important role in the development of hypertension in obesity. The excessive synthesis of aldosterone contributes to the development and progression of metabolic and cardiovascular dysfunctions. Leptin is a newly described regulator of aldosterone synthesis that acts directly on adrenal glomerulosa cells to increase CYP11B2 expression and enhance aldosterone production in human adrenal cells lines and in animal models.<p class="ab...

Background: Thyroid dysfunction is a common condition in children and has been associated with metabolic syndrome, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and mortality. Due to the obesity epidemic in paediatric population exists a higher prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a condition associated with insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome. In adults it has been observed that elevated TSH, even within the normal range, are positively correlated with increas...

Background: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is one of the most frequent chronic diseases in the pediatric age and demands constant and rigorous glycemic control. Intermittently scanned continuous glucose monitoring (isCGM) systems are a helpful tool in diabetes management. Second-generation isCGM contain alarms to assist in the detection of hyper or hypoglycemia. We aimed to compare the sleep quality of principal caregivers of T1DM pediatric patients who use i...

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 trends of the BMI of Brazilian children aged 5-10 between 2010 and 2022.Patients and methods: Descriptive ecological study. Data obtained ...

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:...

Brief summary: This case series of three patients with Bartter syndrome (BS) type 3 treated in Sao Paulo and Santarem, Brazil is presented to highlight the difficulties of clinical management and diagnosis. BS is an inherited disorder characterized by impaired sodium chloride reabsorption in the cortical and medullary thick ascending limbs of the loop of Henle and secondary hypokalemic alkalosis. In Brazil, genetic testing for this disease is not common. Howev...

Background: Iodine concentrations in Chilean schoolchildren are the highest in South America. This may be related to excessive sodium intake, which is associated with hypertension. However, iodine decreases blood pressure (BP), which would be a cardiovascular protective factor.Objective and hypotheses: The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of iodine on BP and cardiovascular risk factors, despite salt intake.Method:...

Rapid-onset obesity with central hypoventilation, hypothalamic, autonomic dysregulation (ROHHAD) syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by respiratory failure and autonomic dysregulation with endocrine abnormalities. Some of these patients could also present with neuroendocrine tumors (ROHHADNET).Aim: To evaluate the clinical, biochemical, treatments and outcome in a cohort of pediatrics patients with ROHHAD-NET syndrome follow in a s...