Frontmatter

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Highlight: Obesity
3. Childhood obesity at the crossroads
4. Obesogenic environments: environmental approaches to obesity prevention
5. Childhood obesity and eating behaviour
6. Hypothalamic obesity in children: pathophysiology to clinical management
7. The reliability of body mass index in the diagnosis of obesity and metabolic risk in children
8. Determining abdominal obesity cut-offs and relevant risk factors for anthropometric indices in Turkish children and adolescents
9. The effect of body mass index on blood pressure varies by race among obese children
10. Insulin secretion response during oral glucose tolerance test is related to low cardiorespiratory fitness in obese adolescents
11. Is there a relationship between cardiovascular risk factors and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate levels in childhood obesity?
12. The effect of lifestyle change and metformin therapy on serum arylesterase and paraoxonase activity in obese children
13. Childhood obesity, thyroid function, and insulin resistance – is there a link? A longitudinal study
14. Associations between IGF-I, IGF-binding proteins and bone turnover markers in prepubertal obese children
15. Osteocalcin is inversely associated with adiposity and leptin in adolescent boys
16. Association between cardiovascular risk factors and carotid intima-media thickness in prepubertal Brazilian children
17. Insulin resistance and cardiometabolic risk factors in obese children and adolescents: a hierarchical approach
18. The role of apolipoprotein E polymorphism in improving dyslipidemia in obese adolescents following physical exercise and National Cholesterol Education Program Step II intervention
19. Review article
20. Is ultrasound useful in the diagnosis of adolescents with polycystic ovary syndrome?
21. Original articles
22. IGF-II expression and methylation in small for gestational age infants
23. Early screening of FTO and MC4R variants in newborns of Greek origin
24. Pitfalls in hormonal diagnosis of 17-beta hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase III deficiency
25. The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among schoolchildren: a cohort study from Xinxiang, China
26. Management of testosterone therapy in adolescents and young men with hypogonadism: are we following adult clinical practice guidelines?
27. Vitamin D status and its associations with components of metabolic syndrome in healthy children
28. Metformin treatment improves weight and dyslipidemia in children with metabolic syndrome
29. Patient reports
30. Hypothyroidism caused by the combination of two heterozygous mutations: one in the TSH receptor gene the other in the DUOX2 gene
31. Ovarian carcinoma in a 14-year-old with classical salt-wasting congenital adrenal hyperplasia and bilateral adrenalectomy
32. An asymptomatic mother diagnosed with 3-methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase deficiency after newborn screening
33. A new missense mutation in the BCKDHB gene causes the classic form of maple syrup urine disease (MSUD)
34. Ovotesticular disorder of sex development with unusual karyotype: patient report
35. First case report of medium-chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency in China
36. Virilizing adrenal oncocytoma in a 9-year-old girl: rare neoplasm with an intriguing postoperative course
37. Unexpected clinical features in a female patient with proopiomelanocortin (POMC) deficiency
38. Sirolimus therapy in a patient with severe hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia due to a compound heterozygous ABCC8 gene mutation
39. Cross-reactivity of adrenal steroids with aldosterone may prevent the accurate diagnosis of congenital adrenal hyperplasia
40. Hyperthyroidism hidden by congenital central hypoventilation syndrome
41. The use of pamidronate for acute vitamin D intoxication, clinical experience with three cases
42. Chondrocalcinosis related to familial hypomagnesemia with hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis
43. Cushing syndrome related to leukemic infiltration of the central nervous system
44. Hashimoto’s encephalopathy: a rare pediatric brain disease
45. Short communication
46. A novel ABCD1 gene mutation in a Chinese patient with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy