Demographic, Clinical and Biochemical Characteristics of Pediatric Obesity: Interim Analysis of a Larger Prospective Study.

Pediatric obesity is a common nutritional disorder that affects more than a third of the young population and predis-poses individuals to greater future morbidity and mortality. Materials and methods: Sixty-two children were recruited in the study. Demographic and clinical information regarding the pa-tients and their parents was collected.

Therapeutic challenges in a patient with the simple virilizing (SV) form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) due to the P30L/I172N genotype.

Background Steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency is an autosomal recessive disorder, present in 90-95% of all cases with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). The classical simple virilizing (SV) form of the disease causes virilization of the external genitalia in newborn females and pseudo-precocious puberty in both sexes, due to reactive androgen overproduction. Case presentation We describe a 3.