Pediatric Endocrinology News

Several states across the country have introduced or are considering legislation that would prohibit medical treatment for children who may be transgender, including the use of pubertal blockers, a trend that has alarmed clinicians who say such bills reflect widespread misunderstandings and go against evidence-based practices.

Although causality is difficult to prove definitively, mounting evidence suggests adverse health consequences of endocrine-disrupting among humans. Recent research links these ubiquitous compounds to pediatric obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis and more.

Children may be more likely to develop overweight or obesity if their mothers are exposed to high levels of paraben while pregnant, according to findings published in Nature Communications.

Bariatric surgery can help adolescents with severe obesity reduce their long-term cardiovascular disease risk, according to findings published in Obesity.

Children with mild and persistent untreated subclinical hypothyroidism did not have impaired neurocognitive function and did not see neurocognitive benefits from 2 years of levothyroxine therapy, according to findings from a case-control study reported in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

The Daily Mile, a school-based physical activity program in addition to physical education, may be considered a favorable and cost-effective approach to childhood obesity prevention when compared to the usual health and wellbeing activities in schools, according to findings from a recent study.

Financial incentive programs to support diabetes self-management in families with adolescents with type 1 diabetes may improve health outcomes, according to a qualitative study published in Pediatric Diabetes.

A cohort of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes had markers of bone formation and bone resorption that were significantly decreased compared with children without diabetes, independent of diabetes duration and Tanner stages, according to findings published in Pediatric Diabetes.

Children born via early term scheduled cesarean section to women with any type of diabetes may be at greater risk for neonatal hypoglycemia if their mother is treated with corticosteroids, according to findings published in Diabetes Care.

Children born to mothers who smoked in early pregnancy were more likely to experience a fracture before age 1 year than those born to mothers who did not smoke, according to findings from a national register study published in BMJ.