Pediatric Endocrinology News

Non-Hispanic Black children are less likely to start continuous glucose monitoring within 1 year of diabetes diagnosis compared with non-Hispanic white children, according to study data.

For care with nonbinary children, there are no guidelines, there is very little experience, and all the knowledge we have is anecdotal. There is also not enough research.

In a little more than a decade, access to gender-affirming care for minors has increased greatly across the U.S.

The percentage of youths with type 1 diabetes spending at least 70% time in range more than doubled after 3 months of using a hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery system, according to a study published in Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics.

Children and teens with type 1 diabetes and two or more comorbidities or a mental health condition have a worse health-related quality of life compared with those with no comorbidities, according to a study published in Diabetic Medicine.

The FDA granted priority review for a new drug application for an intranasal oxytocin analogue to reduce hyperphagia and behavioral distress associated with Prader-Willi syndrome, according to an industry press release.

Adolescents with type 2 diabetes were more likely to achieve HbA1c targets after 24 weeks of once-weekly exenatide compared with placebo, with trends observed toward decreased fasting plasma glucose and reduced body weight, data show.

A new poll suggests the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated the obesity epidemic in the United States.

Pediatric diabetes research is an area that hits close to home for Kristen Nadeau, MD, MS, professor of pediatric endocrinology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted some of the disparities children face in diabetes prevention and care, according to a presenter at the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions.