Endocrinology News

Early interventions to improve childhood overweight or obesity may be hindered because many parents lack understanding of the problem, according to study findings presented at the European Obesity Summit.

Compared with adults who were born at term with normal birth weight, adults born premature with very low birth weight or at term but small for gestational age were considerably shorter and had lower bone mineral content and bone mineral density, according to study results presented at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Munich.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Reality TV star Jazz Jennings knew she was a girl from the moment she could first express herself and knows she was fortunate to have supportive parents who sought out medical care for their transgender child while she was still young.

ATLANTA — Susan Samuels, MD, child and adolescent psychiatrist at New York-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine, emphasizes the burden of psychiatric comorbidities of chronic illness and how clinicians can manage them in adolescents.

Recent findings published in JAMA Pediatrics suggested that consuming artificial sweeteners during pregnancy may increase infant BMI.

After nearly 4 decades of increasing rates of childhood overweight and obesity in Canada, prevalence declined between 2004 and 2013, according to study findings published in CMAJ.

The development of type 1 diabetes by age 8 years was linked to recurrent viral respiratory tract infections in the first 6 months of age, according to study findings published in JAMA.

School-based obesity interventions that included school nurses resulted in positive BMI outcomes for students, according to recent research in the Journal of School Health.

The prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States increased across all age groups between 1999 and 2014, despite public health efforts to combat the growing epidemic, according to study findings published in Obesity.

BOSTON — Young children who take antibiotics are more likely to develop prediabetes as adolescents, likely due to a decrease of beneficial microbiota in the gut, according to study findings presented here.