Endocrinology News

Between 2005 and 2009, high school athletes lost more than 9,000 days of practice and competition per year to heat illness, with most heat-related illnesses occurring during football practice, CDC researchers reported today.

Obese adolescents with type 2 diabetes may have diminished cognitive performance and subtle brain abnormalities, according to results of a new study.

Childhood-onset type 1 diabetes has been linked to environmental factors associated with decreased antigenic exposure early in life and to maternal obesity, rather than infant characteristics.

Since 1997, the percentage of 7-year-old white girls who reached pubertal maturation has nearly doubled, according to data from a recent study.

Black youth may benefit from a revised vitamin D intake level of 2,000 IU compared with the currently recommended adequate intake of 400 IU, new data suggested.

The Obama Administration has announced implementation of the Affordable Care Act, which will require new insurance plans to provide preventive care without cost-sharing to millions of Americans.

Researchers found a significant association between enteroviral infection and the diagnosis of type 1 diabetes in children, according to data presented this week at the 110th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in San Diego.

The prevalence of childhood obesity and overweight appears to vary widely among states, with the highest rates in the southern United States, according to recent research.

With multiple brands of recombinant growth hormone available commercially for pediatric treatment, brand switches are becoming more common. However, growth hormone brand switches may have an adverse effect on patient care and may burden pediatric endocrinology practices, according to data presented at a Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society session at the 2010 Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — When daily intake remained below 1,200 mcg per day, periconceptional folic acid supplementation lowered an infant’s methylation fractions at the insulin-like growth factor II/H19 differentially methylated region, according to data presented at the 2010 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.