Endocrinology News

Primary care physicians caring for children who have been successfully treated for Cushing syndrome should continue screening for mental illness, according to data published in Pediatrics.

A healthy weight trajectory was more likely in children who regularly consumed breakfast at school — even among those who ate an additional morning meal at home — than among those who skipped breakfast, study data indicate.

Adolescents with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes who attended a series of shared medical appointments for 9 months experienced stabilization of HbA1c and improved overall quality of life, according to recent findings.

Spanish children with type 1 diabetes switched from multiple daily injection therapy to insulin pump therapy saw sustained improvement in HbA1c and a decrease in hypoglycemic events over 3 years, according to recent study data.

Adolescent girls with type 1 diabetes have worse glycemic control than adolescent boys, have a higher HbA1c at diagnosis and are more likely to experience complications, such as retinopathy, in adulthood, according to recent findings.

Favorable increases in HDL cholesterol and decreases in fasting triglyceride measurements may be responsible for the trend of declining metabolic syndrome severity in U.S. adolescents.

Neighborhood disadvantage was associated with inflammation in black and white children with type 1 diabetes, as well as poor metabolic control in black children, according to research in Pediatric Diabetes.

Overweight or obesity in Massachusetts children is more strongly related to low-income status than to race or ethnicity, according to study findings.

Cumulative risk and exposure-adjusted incidences and incidence rate ratios for type 2 diabetes were significantly higher among youth exposed to antipsychotics, compared with unexposed psychiatric controls and healthy controls.

The Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute has received $2 million to study an obesity treatment method that uses long-term interventions for children and parents to reach and sustain weight-loss goals, according to a press release.