Endocrinology News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Maternal hypothyroidism and congenital hypothyroidism affected the development of the child’s corpus callosum, resulting in different changes to the size and shape of regions such as the genu and affecting cognitive ability, a presenter said here.

Adolescents whose type 1 diabetes is poorly managed are at increased risk for depression, according to recent study findings published in Pediatrics.

Extremely obese youth are 10 times more likely to develop hypertension compared with their normal-weight peers, according to data recently published in the Journal of Clinical Hypertension.

Infants demonstrated recovery of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis within 6 to 12 weeks of glucocorticoid treatment, and circadian variation in salivary cortisol was also established within 6 weeks, according to data.

Women who gain excessive weight during pregnancy could increase the risk for having overweight offspring, according to data from a population-based study.

Researchers have identified a gene in which a loss of function could contribute to aspects of Prader-Willi syndrome and possibly complex autism, according to data reported in Nature Genetics.

Dextrose gel can be used as a first-line treatment for late preterm and term babies with hypoglycemia within 48 hours of birth, according to recent study findings published in The Lancet.

An education program geared toward patients with type 1 diabetes transitioning from pediatric to adult care yielded improvements in glycemic control, diabetes self-management and quality of life, according to data presented at EASD 2013.

Public health efforts to improve behaviors related to obesity among US adolescents are resulting in some success, according to recent study findings published in Pediatrics.

Overweight children are twice as likely and obese children are four times as likely to develop hypertension as adults compared with normal-weight children, new data suggest.