ESPE Abstracts

Background: In recent years, vitamin D is attracting increasing interest due to the resurgence of vitamin D deficiency and rickets in developed countries, identifying their extraesqueletics actions and greater understanding of its many benefits. Vitamin D deficiency in children prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in certain regions described up to 80%, especially at high latitudes (above 37) and some breeds.Objective and hypotheses: To study the degree of...

Background: Several drugs and pharmaceutical formulations not sold in our country for different reasons: economic, market requirements or the prevalence of the disease. Like occur in so-called orphan treatments, diabetes mellitus (DM) children may be deprived of pharmaceutical presentations for its lower numerical prevalence vs the number of adult patients affections DMtipo2 One of the problems that young children face DM1 is its high sensitivity to insulin. Since May 2014 mar...

Background: 1 000 million people worldwide presenting vitamin D deficiency in children prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in certain regions described up to 80%, especially at high latitudes (above 37). Has been postulated role of vitamin D in the immune system and in clinical variability DM1.Objective and hypotheses: To study the degree of deficit VITD in our population (Location: 42° 51’north latitude 2° 41’west longitude) with DM1 ...

Background: There is a small proportion of children born SGA without postnatal catch-up growth who are presented with persistent short stature, low BMI, and decreased lean body mass (LBM). Data on body composition are rarely reported in the literature. Our study addresses the question whether human recombinant GH treatment could affect body composition in these SGA children or not.Design: We included 58 SGA children (n=20 females) with SGA (birt...

Objective: To study how basal metabolism influences the somatometric evolution of the child and adolescent population with obesity in a pediatric endocrinology clinic; multichannel impedance study, TANITA BF 430.Results: 100 randomly selected patients from a database with 1400 records were studied. Most of the patients who come to these consultations for obesity are girls, between 8 and 11 years old. The group of boys at...

Background: GH revolutionised treatment of children with GH deficiency, conditioning an improvement in height outcome but also an increase of lean body mass and reduction of fat mass.Objective and hypotheses: The authors aimed to evaluate the growth and weight response in children with GH deficiency and identify potential factors affecting the outcome of these patients.Method: The growth and weight data of 58 children (33 boys and ...

Background: There is growing evidence of a correlation between fat and bone metabolism at both the clinical and molecular levels, although the systemic regulators have not been clearly identified. The receptor activator of nuclear factor kB ligand (RANKL) and its soluble decoy receptor, osteoprotegerin (OPG), are involved in bone resorption and vascular calcification. OPG levels has been related with insulin resistance in adult obese subjects.Objective a...

Background: The diagnosis of 46,XY disorder of sex development (DSD) due to 5-alpha reductase 2 (5α-RD2) deficiency has been based on testosterone:dihydrotestosterone (T:DHT) ratio, urinary steroid profiling and mutational analysis of SRD5A2 gene. The biochemical hallmarks of 5α-RD2 deficiency include increased T:DHT ratio. However, several difficulties are observed in the DHT measurement leading to misdiagnosis. The mutational analysis of the SRD5A2 has been propose...

Background: Maternal autoimmune hypothyroidism can have negative consequences on the fetus: on the one hand, maternal hypothyrosinemia might affect the fetal brain development in the early stages of pregnancy; on the other, thyroid inhibiting antibodies can pass through the placenta. It is currently unclear if these antibodies may affect the newborn’s thyroid function. Consequently, there are no certain indications regarding the management of newborns bor...

Background: Childhood obesity is commonly associated with signs of endothelial dysfunction, characterized by impairment of insulin signaling and vascular NO availability. Recently both these features have been associated with endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, however the role of ER stress in the mechanism/s leading to vascular dysfunction in childhood obesity remains still to be established.Objective and Hypotheses: To evaluate ER stress and insulin-sti...