ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: The COVID19 pandemic had an impact on different health services due to the lockdowns, curfews, or reducing provision of some clinical services in order to minimise the infection spread. Cancellation of clinic appointments was observed. Some patients also did not attend their appointments due to the fear of contracting the infection.Objectives: This study looked at the impact of the pandemic on the paediatri...

Objective: To assess the risk of metabolic syndrome (MS) in children and adolescents as per the recommendation based on the age and sex-specific reference curves for Waist Circumference (WC) for Indian children by Khadilkar et al.Study Design: A total of 370 children (200 girls, 170 boys) aged 6 to 18years coming for regular checkups to our center from January 2016 to March 2019 with WC >70th percentile we...

Background: Pediatric hypertension is a risk factor for adult hypertension and cardiovascular disease which entails the necessity of early detection.Aim: To investigate how nutrition habits are correlated with systolic blood pressure (SBP) in health children and adolescent population.Methods: 1395 children and adolescents from Greece were enrolled to participate in the research. A specially designed questionnaire regarding to eatin...

6q24 methylation defects are the most common cause of Transient Neonatal Diabetes Mellitus (TNDM). The clinical picture is one of impaired insulin secretion, small for gestational age and diabetes mellitus aged <6 months. This case illustrates the fluctuation between both hyper- and hypoglycaemia that can been seen in 6q24 methylation defects. A term, small for gestational age baby boy was noted to have hypoglycaemia (BSL 1.8 mmol/l) at 1.5 h of life which resolved with or...

Background: While some guidelines recommend 0.5–1.0 units/kg per day of subcutaneous insulin following resolution of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), up to 2 units/kg/day are used in various centers.Objective and hypotheses: To test the hypothesis that higher initial insulin doses would be more efficient during first 48 h of subcutaneous insulin therapy after DKA in cases with new-onset type 1 diabetes.Method: Records of patients ...

Background: Since 1975 the prevalence of obesity has tripled. As one of the habits of a healthy lifestyle is to reduce the fast sugars in our meals, the supply of non-nutritive sweeteners in the food supply has increased by offering sweeter meals without extra calorie intake.Objectives: To explore the characteristics of students and young adults’ lifestyle habits and consumption of non-nutritive sweeteners and their...

Background: Congenital combined pituitary hormone deficiency (cCPHD) is the loss of ≥2 pituitary hormones caused by genetic or prenatal factors.Methods: For the period 1996–2020, patients with cCPHD were identified from the Danish National Patient Registry and the registries at the four Danish hospitals approved for the management of cCPHD. Retrospective hospital file reviews were performed to validate the diagn...

Background: COVID19 Lockdown resulted in an extreme change in daily lifestyle with a significant increase in weight and loss of quality of life, as well as an increase in the risk of secondary health conditions even in young people. One reason for this is a fatal change in the nutritional situation, especially among adolescents. Convincing models to counter this problem are missing so far. Multiprofessional training programs could reveal an outstanding effect ...

Introduction: Polydipsia and polyuria are one of the common chief complaints in the field of pediatric endocrinology. The differential diagnosis of polydipsia and polyuria are various diseases including diabetes mellitus (DM), central diabetes insipidus (CDI), and primary polydipsia (PP). Although DM is not difficult to diagnose, between DI and PP is sometimes difficult.Aim: The objective of our study is to reveal the in...

Objectives: Diazoxide is first line treatment for hypoglycaemia due to hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia (HH). However, the FDA has raised serious concerns regarding diazoxide-induced pulmonary hypertension (PH) in 2015. Although sporadic cases of PH have been reported, no HH cohort has been systematically characterised to understand severity and risk factors for diazoxide-induced PH.Methods: To investigate the onset, progress and associated factors in PH,...