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1. Lipid Profile and Triglyceride-Glucose Index (TyG) Alterations in a Single-Center Cohort of Children Diagnosed with Central Precocious Puberty

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Giorgio Sodero, Lucia Celeste Pane, Elena Malavolta, Giulia Rotunno, Linda Sessa, Barbara Fraccascia, Marcello Candelli, Donato Rigante, and Clelia Cipolla

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central precocious puberty, cholesterol, triglycerides, triglyceride-glucose index, child, Pediatrics, RJ1-570
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Background: A correlation between plasma lipids and timing of pubertal development has been hypothesized, though lipid influence remains unclear in central precocious puberty (CPP). Aim: To assess any possible alterations in the lipid profile and triglyceride glucose index (TyG) in children diagnosed with CPP. Patients and Methods: Retrospective single-center study conducted on children (aged 6.3 ± 2.1 years) evaluated for the suspicion of CPP. Results: Based on the results of the gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) test, considering 5 IU/L as cut-off of the luteinizing hormone peak, CPP was confirmed in 43 patients (57.3%). Sixteen (37.2%) had a pathologic body mass index (BMI), with 9 (20.9%) being overweight and 7 (16.27%) obese. High total cholesterol was found in 3 patients with CPP (6.97%), high triglycerides were found in 11 patients with CPP (25.58%), high LDL cholesterol was found in 5 patients with CPP (11.62%), low HDL cholesterol was found in 12/43 patients with CPP (27.9%), a pathologic TyG was found in 13/43 patients with CPP (30.23%). No significant association was observed in the lipid profile for patients with or without CPP, except for HDL cholesterol, which was lower in the CPP group (47.1 ± 10.9; p = 0.033). However, the association between serum HDL cholesterol and CPP was not confirmed at the multivariate logistic regression analysis adjusted for patients’ sex and age (p = 0.1; OR: 1.035; 95% CI: 0.993–1.078). Conclusion: The overall lipid profile of our pediatric patients diagnosed with CPP did not differ from patients having idiopathic precocious thelarche or normal variants of puberty development.

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2024
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2. Metabolic Profile of Patients with Smith-Magenis Syndrome: An Observational Study with Literature Review

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Clelia Cipolla, Linda Sessa, Giulia Rotunno, Giorgio Sodero, Francesco Proli, Chiara Veredice, Valentina Giorgio, Chiara Leoni, Jessica Rosati, Domenico Limongelli, Eliza Kuczynska, Elisabetta Sforza, Valentina Trevisan, Donato Rigante, Giuseppe Zampino, and Roberta Onesimo

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Smith-Magenis syndrome, obesity, hypercholesterolemia, lipids, insulin, diabetes, Pediatrics, RJ1-570
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Background: Smith-Magenis syndrome (SMS) is caused by either interstitial deletions in the 17p11.2 region or pathogenic variants in the RAI1 gene and is marked by a distinct set of physical, developmental, neurological, and behavioral features. Hypercholesterolemia has been described in SMS, and obesity is also commonly found. Aim: To describe and characterize the metabolic phenotype of a cohort of SMS patients with an age range of 2.9–32.4 years and to evaluate any correlations between their body mass index and serum lipids, glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), and basal insulin levels. Results: Seven/thirty-five patients had high values of both total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; 3/35 had high values of triglycerides; none of the patients with RAI1 variants presented dyslipidemia. No patients had abnormal fasting glucose levels. Three/thirty-five patients had HbA1c in the prediabetes range. Ten/twenty-two patients with 17p11.2 deletion and 2/3 with RAI1 variants had increased insulin basal levels. Three/twenty-three patients with the 17p11.2 deletion had prediabetes. Conclusion: Our investigation suggests that SMS ‘deleted’ patients may show a dyslipidemic pattern, while SMS ‘mutated’ patients are more likely to develop early-onset obesity along with hyperinsulinism.

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2023
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3. Differences between Transient Neonatal Diabetes Mellitus Subtypes can Guide Diagnosis and Therapy

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Riccardo Bonfanti, Dario Iafusco, Ivana Rabbone, Giacomo Diedenhofen, Carla Bizzarri, Patrizia Ippolita Patera, Petra Reinstadler, Francesco Costantino, Valeria Calcaterra, Lorenzo Iughetti, Silvia Savastio, Anna Favia, Francesca Cardella, Donatella Lo Presti, Ylenia Girtler, Sarah Rabbiosi, Giuseppe D’Annunzio, Angela Zanfardino, Alessia Piscopo, Francesca Casaburo, Letizia Pintomalli, Lucia Russo, Valeria Grasso, Nicola Minuto, Mafalda Mucciolo, Antonio Novelli, Antonella Marucci, Barbara Piccini, Sonia Toni, Francesca Silvestri, Paola Carrera, Andrea Rigamonti, Giulio Frontino, Michela Trada, Davide Tinti, Maurizio Delvecchio, Novella Rapini, Riccardo Schiaffini, Corrado Mammì, Fabrizio Barbetti, Monica Aloe, Simona Amadeo, Claudia Arnaldi, Marta Bassi, Luciano Beccaria, Marzia Benelli, Giulia Maria Berioloi, Enrica Bertelli, Martina Biagioni, Adriana Bobbio, Stefano Boccato, Oriana Bologna, Franco Bontempi, Clara Bonura, Giulia Bracciolini, Claudia Brufani, Patrizia Bruzzi, Pietro Buono, Roberta Cardani, Giuliana Cardinale, Alberto Casertano, Maria Cristina Castiglione, Vittoria Cauvin, Valentino Cherubini, Franco Chiarelli, Giovanni Chiari, Stefano Cianfarani, Dante Cirillo, Felice Citriniti, Susanna Coccioli, Anna Cogliardi, Santino Confetto, Giovanna Contreas, Anna Corò, Elisa Corsini, Nicoletta Cresta, Fiorella De Berardinis, Valeria De Donno, Giampaolo De Filippo, Rosaria De Marco, Annalisa Deodati, Elena Faleschini, Valentina Fattorusso, Valeria Favalli, Barbara Felappi, Lucia Ferrito, Graziella Fichera, Franco Fontana, Elena Fornari, Roberto Franceschi, Francesca Franco, Adriana Franzese, Anna Paola Frongia, Alberto Gaiero, Francesco Gallo, Luigi Gargantini, Elisa Giani, Chiara Giorgetti, Giulia Bianchi, Vanna Graziani, Antonella Gualtieri, Monica Guasti, Gennaro Iannicelli, Antonio Iannilli, Ignaccolo Giovanna, Dario Ingletto, Stefania Innaurato, Elena Inzaghi, Brunella Iovane, Peter Kaufmann, Alfonso La Loggia, Rosa Lapolla, Anna Lasagni, Nicola Lazzaro, Lorenzo Lenzi, Riccardo Lera, Gabriella Levantini, Fortunato Lombardo, Antonella Lonero, Silvia Longhi, Sonia Lucchesi, Lucia Paola Guerraggio, Sergio Lucieri, Patrizia Macellaro, Claudio Maffeis, Bendetta Mainetti, Giulio Maltoni, Chiara Mameli, Francesco Mammì, Maria Luisa Manca-Bitti, Melania Manco, Monica Marino, Matteo Mariano, Marco Marigliano, Alberto Marsciani, Costanzo Mastrangelo, Maria Cristina Matteoli, Elena Mazzali, Franco Meschi, Antonella MIgliaccio, Anita Morandi, Gianfranco Morganti, Enza Mozzillo, Gianluca Musolino, Rosa Nugnes, Federica Ortolani, Daniela Pardi, Filomena Pascarella, Stefano Passanisi, Annalisa Pedini, Cristina Pennati, Angelo Perrotta, Sonia Peruzzi, Paola Peverelli, Giulia Pezzino, Anita Claudia Piona, Gavina Piredda, Carmelo Pistone, Elena Prandi, Barbara Pedieri, Procolo Di Bonito, Anna Pulcina, Maria Quinci, Emioli Randazzo, Rossella Ricciardi, Carlo Ripoli, Rosanna Roppolo, Irene Rutigliano, Alberto Sabbio, Silvana salardi, Alessandro Salvatoni, Anna Saporiti, Rita Sardi, Mariapiera Scanu, Andrea Scaramuzza, Eleonardo Schiven, Andrea Secco, Linda Sessa, Paola Sogno Valin, Silvia Sordelli, Luisa Spallino, Stefano Stagi, Filomena Stamati, Tosca Suprani, Valentina Talarico, Tiziana Timapanaro, Antonella Tirendi, Letizia Tomaselli, Gianluca Tornese, Adolfo Andrea Trettene, Stefano Tumini, Giuliana Valerio, Claudia Ventrici, Matteo Viscardi, Silvana Zaffani, Maria Zampolli, Giorgio Zanette, Clara Zecchino, Maria Antonietta Zedda, Silvia Zonca, Stefano Zucchini, Bonfanti, R., Iafusco, D., Rabbone, I., Diedenhofen, G., Bizzarri, C., Patera, P. I., Reinstadler, P., Costantino, F., Calcaterra, V., Iughetti, L., Savastio, S., Favia, A., Cardella, F., Presti, D. L., Girtler, Y., Rabbiosi, S., D'Annunzio, G., Zanfardino, A., Piscopo, A., Casaburo, F., Pintomalli, L., Russo, L., Grasso, V., Minuto, N., Mucciolo, M., Novelli, A., Marucci, A., Piccini, B., Toni, S., Silvestri, F., Carrera, P., Rigamonti, A., Frontino, G., Trada, M., Tinti, D., Delvecchio, M., Rapini, N., Schiaffini, R., Mammi, C., and Barbetti, F.

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Proband, Male, Pediatrics, Potassium Channels, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Datasets as Topic, Diagnosis, Differential, Diagnostic Techniques, Endocrine, Female, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Italy, Mutation, Potassium Channels, Inwardly Rectifying, Remission Induction, Retrospective Studies, Sulfonylurea Receptors, Diabetes Mellitus, Infant, Newborn, Diseases, Diseases, Gastroenterology, Diabetes mellitus genetics, Endocrinology, Settore MED/13, Retrospective Studie, Diagnosis, Medicine, Endocrine pancreas, Transient Neonatal Diabetes Mellitus, 6q24 TNDM, KATP TNDM, Sulfonylureas, Sulfonylureas, Sulfonylurea Receptor, biology, Diabetes Mellitu, General Medicine, Metformin, Inwardly Rectifying, Settore MED/03, 6q24 TNDM, medicine.symptom, Endocrine, hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists, medicine.drug, Human, endocrine system, medicine.medical_specialty, KATP TNDM, ABCC8, Transient Neonatal Diabetes Mellitus, Internal medicine, Diabetes mellitus, Macroglossia, Endocrine pancreas, business.industry, medicine.disease, Newborn, Diagnostic Techniques, Transient neonatal diabetes mellitus, Differential, biology.protein, Sulfonylurea receptor, business
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Objective Transient neonatal diabetes mellitus (TNDM) is caused by activating mutations in ABCC8 and KCNJ11 genes (KATP/TNDM) or by chromosome 6q24 abnormalities (6q24/TNDM). We wanted to assess whether these different genetic aetiologies result in distinct clinical features. Design Retrospective analysis of the Italian data set of patients with TNDM. Methods Clinical features and treatment of 22 KATP/TNDM patients and 12 6q24/TNDM patients were compared. Results Fourteen KATP/TNDM probands had a carrier parent with abnormal glucose values, four patients with 6q24 showed macroglossia and/or umbilical hernia. Median age at diabetes onset and birth weight were lower in patients with 6q24 (1 week; −2.27 SD) than those with KATP mutations (4.0 weeks; −1.04 SD) (P = 0.009 and P = 0.007, respectively). Median time to remission was longer in KATP/TNDM than 6q24/TNDM (21.5 weeks vs 12 weeks) (P = 0.002). Two KATP/TNDM patients entered diabetes remission without pharmacological therapy. A proband with the ABCC8/L225P variant previously associated with permanent neonatal diabetes entered 7-year long remission after 1 year of sulfonylurea therapy. Seven diabetic individuals with KATP mutations were successfully treated with sulfonylurea monotherapy; four cases with relapsing 6q24/TNDM were treated with insulin, metformin or combination therapy. Conclusions If TNDM is suspected, KATP genes should be analyzed first with the exception of patients with macroglossia and/or umbilical hernia. Remission of diabetes without pharmacological therapy should not preclude genetic analysis. Early treatment with sulfonylurea may induce long-lasting remission of diabetes in patients with KATP mutations associated with PNDM. Adult patients carrying KATP/TNDM mutations respond favourably to sulfonylurea monotherapy.

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2021

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