Overweight and obesity in children and adolescents with endocrine disorders.

Obesity has become a serious medical condition where many factors can contribute to excess weight gain. The most common type of childhood obesity is simple obesity, which is due to gene-obesogenic environment interaction. Only a minority are due to pathological causes.

Autoimmune disease, familial clustering and thyroid carcinoma coexistent with autoimmune thyroiditis in children and adolescence: A cross-sectional study from the Czech Republic.

Background: The prevalence of autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT), as the most common autoimmune disease (AD) and papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is steadily rising in children. The aim of this study was to determine the coexistence of other AD and thyroid carcinoma (TC) in AIT.

Methods: The cross-sectional study conducted at a tertiary center comprised AIT children (< 19 years).