Endocrinology News

Individual risk factors should be used to assess cardiovascular risk among overweight children compared with other diagnostic approaches to metabolic syndrome, according to researchers.

According to the CDC, obesity rates among low-income preschoolers have significantly declined in 19 states and territories in the United States.

With proper follow-up evaluations, long-term growth hormone treatment in children with Prader-Willi syndrome is safe, according to researchers from Italy. Previous research in the literature has linked short-term growth hormone therapy to adenotonsillar tissue hypertrophy and obstructive sleep apnea in this patient population.

Branched-chain amino acids and long-chain omega-3 fatty acids administered to youth with recently diagnosed type 1 diabetes could spur beta-cell function preservation, according to researchers.

Healthy children who underwent minimally invasive urological surgical procedures with general anesthesia did not display a significant increase in serum cortisol concentrations, according to recent study results.

Results from a study of low-income mothers show that children with mothers with moderate and severe depressive symptoms were more likely to be overweight or obese compared with mothers without depressive symptoms.

Children who were punished with pushing or hitting, independent of severe child abuse, may have increased odds for developing adult CVD, arthritis and obesity, according to researchers.

Researchers in Denmark have linked urinary phthalate metabolites with adrenal androgen levels and onset of puberty, according to data published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Researchers reported that a history of sexual abuse increased the risk for obesity among children and adolescents who had significant psychiatric illnesses.

Progress has been made in the efforts to curb childhood obesity, with panelists from four states and five cities or counties citing a decline in rates during an event today in the nation’s capitol, according to a press release.