Pediatric Endocrinology News

Last year, the CDC updated its 22-year-old pediatric BMI-for-age growth charts to add BMIs above the 97th percentile for the first time in order to track severe obesity in children aged 2 to 19 years.

Childhood cancer survivors in France are less likely to develop obesity compared with the country’s general population, according to a study published in Obesity.

Children aged 10 to 12 years gained more weight during the COVID-19 pandemic than peers assessed before the pandemic, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

The FDA in June approved a once-weekly human growth hormone analog for children aged 3 years and older with growth hormone deficiency, according to a company press release.

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A long-running cohort study found an association between frequent television viewing as a child and developing metabolic syndrome as an adult, according to results reported in Pediatrics.

The proportion of girls diagnosed with rapidly progressive central precocious puberty increased after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with before the pandemic, according to a study conducted in Italy.

Multifocal disease is not linked to a greater risk of recurrence or mortality for children and adolescents with papillary thyroid carcinoma, according to a study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Government-enacted restrictions have resulted in about half of U.S. children and adolescents aged 10 to 17 years living more than 1 hour from a clinic offering gender-confirming care, according to a research letter published in JAMA.

Most transgender youths or children with central precocious puberty had a sustained biochemical response after using a histrelin implant for more than 17 months, according to a study published in Transgender Health.