ESPE Abstracts

Background: Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) deficiency is characterised clinically by adrenal insufficiency, obesity and red hair. As a rule, such patients present early in life with severe hypoglycemia, which leads to initiation of glucocorticoid therapy. We describe here a case of POMC deficiency, where adrenal insufficiency was not diagnosed until the fourth year of life.Objective and hypotheses: To present a case of late diagnosis of POMC deficiency and c...

Background: Diabetes, acute cardiovascular events and lifelong psychological problems reflect the obesity burden. Nutrition is a key point in prophylaxis and management of overweight and there is important to know trends of nutrition to build interventional strategies.Method: There are 1021 healthy lean (LH) and 372 obese (OW) adolescents aged 10–17 y.o. were survived with original questionnaire, which also included social and psychological (Beck-Yo...

Relevance: Evaluation of bone metabolism is a new scientific direction in the study of the long-term effects of childhood obesity.Objective: To study markers of bone metabolism in children and adolescents with obesity.Materials and Methods: 74 children with overweight and obesity in accordance with the WHO criteria and 25 healthy children with an average age of 15.4[11.6;19.2] year...

Background: Obesity is one of the most frequent chronic diseases in the world, however the true prevalence of obesity in the RF remains at the moment insufficiently studied.Aims: To study the age features of the prevalence obesity in boys in the Udmurt Republic - the region in European part of the Russian Federation with the children population of 335 000.Methods: 4795 boys aged 1–17 years were surveyed, among them 2368 (49.4%...

Background: Nonclassical 21-hydroxylase deficiency (NC21OHD) is one of the most common monogenic diseases. Its frequency varies significantly among different ethnic groups. In Russians the frequency of NC21OHD is unknown.Objective and hypotheses: To estimate the incidence of NC21OHD in Russia based on the carrier frequencies of the two most common mutations associated with this disease (V281L and P30L).Method: A total of 998 random...

Background: Obesity is an increasing problem among children and adolescents in recent decades however official statistics are contradictory.Objective and hypotheses: The purpose of this epidemiological study was to determine the prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents in the Udmurt Republic – the region in European part of the Russian Federation with a child population of 300 thousand people.Method: According to the ...

Background: Thyroid dysfunction is well-established feature in children with Down syndrome (DS). There are several reasons for both clinical (CH) or subclinical (SH) hypothyroidism in these children- thyroid dysgenesis and dyshormonogenesis early in life, thyroid insensitivity to TSH; or autoimmune disease during school age.Objective and hypotheses: Evaluation of thyroid function in children with DS.Method: Thyroid function from 80...

Background: Intrauterine growth retardation (small for gestational age (SGA)) is connected with perinatal morbidity, neurological pathology and stature.Objective and hypotheses: The aim of our study is to estimate the incidence of SGA and its consequences in newborns and infants at the age 1.Method: The incidence of SGA among newborns in the Udmurt Republic (the region of the European part of the Russian Federation) has been studie...

Clinical case: A 17-year-old patient was observed with a diagnosis of GD in October 2016. When the patient was examined in the hormonal profile there were hyperthyroidism, a high titer of antibodies to the TSH receptor, in connection of which thyrostatic therapy initiated. In dynamics since November 2018 there has been a pronounced increase in the total volume of the thyroid gland. Firstly she was examined at the Endocrinology Research Center in October 2019...

Background/Objectives: During treatment of children and adolescents with cancer, an imbalance of carbohydrate and mineral metabolism may occur, leading to clinical manifestations of the components of the metabolic syndrome. The aim of the work was to study the frequency and severity of various clinical signs associated with metabolic syndrome in a cohort of patients from the Russian Field Clinical Rehabilitation Center.Design/Met...