Endocrinology News

Kidney transplants in school-aged children increased during the summer break compared with non-summer break weeks, according to published data.

We checked in with CDC Director Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH, for an update on the agency’s efforts to modernize the nation’s disease surveillance and data systems and improve how the CDC communicates with the public and physicians.

In a final recommendation statement, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said that health care professionals should refer or provide youth aged 6 years and older with high BMI to intensive, comprehensive behavioral interventions.

Dispensing of GLP-1 receptor agonists increased nearly 600% among adolescents and young adults in the United States from 2020 to 2023 and was particularly significant among girls and young women, a new study showed.

Participation in the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting is back to pre-COVID-19 levels of engagement, according to one of the event’s program chairs.

DENVER — Individualized care is critical for treating childhood obesity, according to a presenter at the Obesity Medicine Association’s annual conference.

Rates of new-onset type 1 diabetes among children fell back to pre-pandemic levels in 2022 after sharply increasing in 2021, according to a population-wide analysis of data from Scotland published in Diabetes Care.

Height and weight measurements collected through videoconferencing are highly correlated with in-person measurements and support the use of remote assessment of BMI for children with obesity, according to a brief report.

The risk for developing type 2 diabetes is substantially higher for adolescents with overweight or obesity and an HbA1c of at least 6.1% compared with those with an HbA1c of 5.5% or less, according to study data.

As the first point of contact for many patients, it is important for primary care physicians to have strategies that will help treat and manage overweight and obesity, according to experts.