ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Increased adiposity has been associated with smoldering systemic inflammation and metabolic syndrome manifestations, leading to further morbidity by increasing the risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease in adults. Similar analyses have not been performed systematically in children and adolescents.Hypothesis: This study investigates the interrelations between body composition parameters and indices of inflammation and m...

Background: The aim was to determine prevalence and age at seroconversion of thyroid autoimmunity and relation to islet autoantibodies, gender and HLA-DQ genotypes in children followed from birth because of increased genetic risk for type 1 diabetes.Methods: In 1874 10-year-old children followed in the Diabetes Prediction in Skåne (DiPiS) study, blood samples were analysed for autoantibodies against thyroid peroxidase (TPOAb), thyroglobulin (TGAb), ...

Aim: To identify early risk factors of the development of alimentary obesity in adolescence.Methods: We analysed retrospectively 375 histories of development of adolescents: group 1 – 206 obese children (14.55±2.06 years, BMI 32.9±5.1 kg/m2), group 2 – 169 normal-weight patients (12.6±2.2 years (P=0.2); BMI 20.5±1.2 kg/m2 (P=0.0001)) from the University Hospital (Minsk). We collected a...

Background: Klinefelter syndrome (KS) has long-term consequences on bone health. However, studies regarding bone status and metabolism in childhood and adolescence are very rare.Objective and hypotheses: The purpose of our study was to evaluate bone status and metabolism in a cohort of KS children and adolescents.Method: This cross-sectional study involves 40 (mean age 13.7±3.8 years) KS children and adolescents and 80 age-mat...

Introduction: The role of gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) enzyme as a marker of insulin resistance (IR) in pediatric obesity is well known. Recent evidence, mainly in the adult population, has identified GGT/High-Density Lipoprotein (HDL) ratio as a risk index for hepatic steatosis. The study has the purpose of examining the relationship between GGT, GGT/HDL ratio and the clinical/laboratory data of a group of obese Italian children living in the province of ...

Aim: The pathophysiology of developing hypophosphatemia in children with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) has not been sufficiently elucidated. Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 (FGF23) is a hormone that causes phosphate excretion from the kidneys. The increase of FGF23 in children with DKA may explain the pathophysiology of hypophosphatemia in these children. The aim of our study was to investigate the effect of serum FGF23 on serum phosphorus level in children with DKA...

Objective: Allostatic load (AL) refers to the physiological response that occurs in chronic stress burden, Excessive weight gain is an important source of physiological stress promoting chronic low-inflammation state detrimental for health. We estimated AL score among a pediatric population, in order to define a correlation between cumulative biological dysregulation and excess weight.Methods: We enrolled 164 children an...

Background: Obesity in childhood and adolescence represents one of the main health problems of the 21st century. Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 (FGF-23) and its co-receptor, Klotho, play an important role in mineral metabolism, however, little is known about their role in obesity.Objective and Hypothesis: To determine the concentrations of FGF-23 and Klotho in children and adolescents with overweight and obesity.<p class="abs...

Background: Recent studies have suggested a role of IGF1 as a candidate prognostic marker for cardiometabolic complications of obesity.Objective: To investigate the relationship between IGF1 serum levels and both biochemical and metabolic parameters as well as body composition in a cohort of obese children.Methods: obese subjects (130F/157M), aged 11.2±2.7 years, were studied. Anthropometry, biochemical and metabolic parameter...

Aim: Childhood obesity has become extremely important issue worldwide. The aim of this study was to determine associations between data from bioimpedance analysis with the antrophometric measurements and biochemical results obtained from children and adolescents with severe obesity.Study population and Methods: Study group consisted of 128 children recruited in four regional reference centers including 70 girls (54.7%) a...