Subtraction of subcutaneous fat to improve the prediction of visceral adiposity: exploring a new anthropometric track in overweight and obese youth.

Background: The efficiency of traditional anthropometric measurements such as body mass index (BMI) or waist circumference (Waist C) used to replace biomedical imaging for assessing visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is still highly controversial in youth.

Hypothesis And Objectives: We evaluated the most accurate model predicting VAT in overweight/obese youth, using various anthropometric measurements and their correlation with different body fat compartments, especially by testing, for the first time in youth, the hypothesis that subtracting the anthropometric measurement the most highly correlated with subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue (SAAT) and less correlated possible with VAT from an anthropometric abdominal measurement highly correlated with visceral and total abdominal adipose tissue (TAAT), predicts VAT with higher accuracy.

Subjects And Methods: VAT and SAAT data resulted from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) analysis performed on 181 boys and girls (7-17 y) from Diabetes & Endocrinology Care Paediatrics Clinic in Luxembourg.

Cardiometabolic risk: leg fat is protective during childhood.

Background: Childhood obesity is associated with early cardiometabolic risk (CMR), increased risk of adulthood obesity, and worse health outcomes. Leg fat mass (LFM) is protective beyond total fat mass (TFM) in adults. However, the limited evidence in children remains controversial.

Lemierre syndrome in a 5-month-old male infant: Case report and review of the pediatric literature.

Objectives: To report, to the best of our knowledge, the youngest patient with Lemierre syndrome.

Design: Descriptive case report with review of the pediatric literature.

Setting: Pediatric intensive care unit in a tertiary referral hospital.

[Etidronate per os in subcutaneous fat necrosis with hypercalcemia and nephrocalcinosis].

Subcutaneus fat necrosis is an uncommon disease which may be complicated with potentially fatal hypercalcemia. The usual treatment of hypercalcemia includes hyperhydratation, corticosteroids and diet. This treatment is not always effective in normalizing plasma calcium concentration.