Endocrinology News

WASHINGTON — Adolescents with severe obesity should be referred to a program that can provide surgical management before BMI reaches 50 kg/m2, and treatment options should also include behavioral and nutritional counseling and medications, according to a speaker here.

WASHINGTON — Inadequate sleep might contribute to excess weight gain in adolescents, but delaying school start times may alleviate the risk, according to a speaker here.

Trick-or-treating poses several risks for children with diabetes, but there are many strategies families can employ to ensure that all children safely enjoy the holiday.

A small group of adolescents with obesity who had low levels of the hormone spexin and high levels of the hormone leptin were significantly more likely to have higher concentrations of high sensitivity C-reactive protein and insulin, both markers for cardiovascular disease, according to findings from a pilot study.

WASHINGTON — With up to 10% of children worldwide diagnosed with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and even nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, pediatric hepatologists face an unmet need for medical treatment and non-invasive diagnostics, according to a presenter at The Liver Meeting 2017.

In this year’s Standards of Medical Care, the American Diabetes Association emphasizes that lifestyle management is the key to treating patients with diabetes, according to a review article published in Osteopathic Family Physician.

Children of mothers who had gestational diabetes are more likely to have increased adiposity, an adverse cardiometabolic profile and early onset of puberty in girls compared with children whose mothers did not have gestational diabetes, study data from Denmark show.

The use of beta-lactam or macrolide antibiotics in young children who are genetically at risk for type 1 diabetes or celiac disease before seroconversion was not linked to the future risk of celiac disease autoimmunity or type 1 diabetes, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Research published in JAMA suggested that insulin pump therapy, when compared with insulin injections, was associated with a lower risk for diabetic ketoacidosis and severe hypoglycemia in patients with type 1 diabetes who were younger than 20 years.

The prevalence of childhood obesity rates has risen more than 10-fold worldwide during the past 4 decades, with the greatest increases observed in parts of Asia, according to findings reported in The Lancet.