Endocrinology News

Children who were breast-fed and consumed more fruits and vegetables as infants were more likely to meet dietary guidelines and have a healthy BMI at age 6 years compared with children who consumed mixed-milk and energy-dense foods as infants, according to findings published in the International Journal of Obesity.

The Endocrine Society recently released a clinical practice guideline addressing the prevention and treatment of pediatric obesity, including how to evaluate for medical or psychological complications, when to evaluate for genetic causes and when to considered medications or surgery for adolescents.

Lifetime and first-year antibiotic use in children is associated with BMI at age 3 years, whereas prenatal antibiotic use is not, according to an analysis of more than 8,000 mother–child pairs.

Children with type 1 diabetes were found to have had three times the number of enterovirus infections as children without diabetes, study findings show.

Girls with type 1 diabetes are nearly twice as likely as boys with the disease to exhibit moderate to severe diabetes distress, according to national survey data from Sweden.

The FDA recently approved an expanded indication for insulin degludec injection, a once-daily, long-acting basal insulin, for use in children and adolescents with diabetes, according to a press release from Novo Nordisk.

Children with overweight or obesity in the United States are still not receiving evidence-based care for obesity despite the release of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations 6 years ago, according to a consensus report published in Obesity.

Adolescents with overweight or obesity who report pressure to be thin from parents and friends are more likely to increase their BMI and fat mass compared with adolescents who are lean, study data show.

Moderate to vigorous physical activity and screen time are each associated with cardiometabolic risk factors in Brazilian adolescents, with risks more pronounced in those with overweight and obesity, study findings suggest.

Measures of adiposity in childhood and adolescence may be related to cord blood leptin and adiponectin levels, markers of neonatal fat mass, according to study findings recently published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.