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Bedside scoring procedure for the diagnosis of diabetic peripheral neuropathy in young patients with type 1 diabetes mellitusShlomit Shalitin
Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqva
J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab 15:613-20. 2002..The prevalence of DPN was estimated and its risk factors identified...
Effects of a twelve-week randomized intervention of exercise and/or diet on weight loss and weight maintenance, and other metabolic parameters in obese preadolescent childrenS Shalitin
The Jesse Z and Lea Shafer Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, and Felsenstein Medical Research Center, 14 Kaplan Street, IL 49202 Petah Tikva, Israel
Horm Res 72:287-301. 2009..To compare the short- and long-term effects of intervention programs on body weight and cardiometabolic risk factors...
Which factors predict glycemic control in children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes before 6.5 years of age?S Shalitin
The Jesse Z and Lea Shafer Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel
Acta Diabetol 49:355-62. 2012..This "metabolic tracking" emphasizes the importance of achieving early optimal control even in younger children...
Frequency of cardiovascular risk factors in obese children and adolescents referred to a tertiary care center in IsraelS Shalitin
Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel
Horm Res 69:152-9. 2008..To establish the frequency of dyslipidemia in obese Israeli children and adolescents and its association with other cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors...
Clinical heterogeneity of pseudohypoparathyroidism: from hyper- to hypocalcemiaShlomit Shalitin
Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel
Horm Res 70:137-44. 2008..In addition, the recommendation for patients with hypoparathyroidism that strict low-normal calcium levels be maintained during therapy in order to prevent hypercalciuria is probably not applicable in PHP...
Endocrine dysfunction and parameters of the metabolic syndrome after bone marrow transplantation during childhood and adolescenceS Shalitin
Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, 14 Kaplan Street, Petach Tikva 49202, Israel
Bone Marrow Transplant 37:1109-17. 2006..9% of the 43 patients tested. These findings emphasize the need for long-term follow-up of endocrine and metabolic parameters in young patients after BMT in order to offer proper treatment and improve quality of life...
Insulin resistance and impaired glucose tolerance in obese children and adolescents referred to a tertiary-care center in IsraelS Shalitin
Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqva, Israel
Int J Obes (Lond) 29:571-8. 2005..To establish the prevalence of insulin resistance and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and their determinants in a cohort of obese children and adolescents...
Predictors of glycaemic control in patients with Type 1 diabetes commencing continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion therapyS Shalitin
The Jesse Z and Lea Shafer Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel
Diabet Med 27:339-47. 2010..To identify variables that predict glycaemic control in Type 1 diabetic patients switched to a continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) regimen, in order to improve patient selection for this treatment...
Diabetes technology and treatments in the paediatric age groupS Shalitin
Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel
Int J Clin Pract Suppl . 2011..A future larger trial of both of these agents will be of interest. In this review of the literature we have tried to select recent publications that offer some insight into these issues in paediatric patients with T1D...
Endocrine outcome in long-term survivors of childhood brain tumorsShlomit Shalitin
The Jesse Z and Lea Shafer Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel
Horm Res Paediatr 76:113-22. 2011..To evaluate the rates of endocrine abnormalities in survivors of childhood brain tumors and identify risk factors...
Children born small for gestational age: growth patterns, growth hormone treatment and long-term sequelaeShlomit Shalitin
Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children's Medical Center, Petah Tikqa, Israel
Isr Med Assoc J 5:877-82. 2003
Role of obesity and leptin in the pubertal process and pubertal growth--a reviewS Shalitin
Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqva, Israel
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 27:869-74. 2003..In summary, obesity is associated with early puberty. Elevated leptin levels might have a permissive effect on the pubertal process and pubertal growth...
Autoimmune thyroiditis in infants with Down's syndromeShlomit Shalitin
Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqva
J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab 15:649-52. 2002..We suggest that follow-up of thyroid function and thyroid autoantibodies should be started from infancy in Down's syndrome to prevent further deterioration of mental development and growth...
Adrenal hypoplasia congenita with multiple pituitary hormone deficiency without documented mutation in DAX1 or SF1 geneS Shalitin
Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, 14 Kaplan Street, Petah Tiqva 49202, Israel
Mol Genet Metab 76:157-61. 2002..A boy with adrenal hypoplasia congenita (AHC) and multiple pituitary hormone deficiency (MPHD), without mutations in the DAX1 or SF1 genes, is described. The association of AHC and MPHD has not been previously reported...
Prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in obese children and adolescents before and after weight reduction and its relation to other metabolic parametersS Shalitin
Jesse Z and Sara Lea Shafer Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center of Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tikva, Israel
Horm Res 71:155-61. 2009....
The use of insulin pump therapy in the pediatric age groupS Shalitin
Jesse Z and Sara Lea Shafer Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center of Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tikva, Israel
Horm Res 70:14-21. 2008..This review briefly summarizes the current state of knowledge regarding the use of CSII in pediatric and adolescent patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus...
Four novel mutations, including the first gross deletion in TCF1, identified in HNF-4alpha, GCK and TCF1 in patients with MODY in IsraelE Stern
Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqva, Israel
J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab 20:909-21. 2007..Four mutations were novel, including the first gross deletion ever described in the TCF1 gene. The low overall mutation frequency found here may suggest the involvement of other, yet unidentified, genes in the etiology of MODY in Israel...
Low-carbohydrate (low & high-fat) versus high-carbohydrate low-fat diets in the treatment of obesity in adolescentsS Demol
Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center of Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa, Israel
Acta Paediatr 98:346-51. 2009..To compare the impact of low-carbohydrate diets of different fat content to high-carbohydrate low-fat diet on weight and metabolic parameters in obese adolescents...
Decrease in frequency of ketoacidosis at diabetes onset over the past two decades - perspectives of a paediatric tertiary care centreL de Vries
The Jesse Z and Sara Lea Shafer Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tikva, Israel
Diabet Med 29:e170-5. 2012....
The role of new technologies in treating children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitusS Shalitin
Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tikva, Israel
Pediatr Diabetes 8:72-9. 2007..This review focuses on the new technologies which have been developed for treating children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes...
Comparison of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion and multiple daily injection regimens in children with type 1 diabetes: a randomized open crossover trialNaomi Weintrob
Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Pediatrics 112:559-64. 2003..To compare the efficacy and feasibility of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) with multiple daily insulin injections (MDI) in children with type 1 diabetes...
Glycemic patterns detected by continuous subcutaneous glucose sensing in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus treated by multiple daily injections vs continuous subcutaneous insulin infusionNaomi Weintrob
Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center of Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqva, Israel
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 158:677-84. 2004..To compare glycemic patterns by mode of therapy in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus using the Continuous Glucose Monitoring System (CGMS)...
Bedside neuropathy disability score compared to quantitative sensory testing for measurement of diabetic neuropathy in children, adolescents, and young adults with type 1 diabetesNaomi Weintrob
Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center of Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa, Israel
J Diabetes Complications 21:13-9. 2007..In the present study, we compared the bedside neuropathy disability score (NDS) with quantitative sensory testing (QST) for screening for DPN in youth with type 1 diabetes mellitus...
Obese children and adolescents: a risk group for low vitamin B12 concentrationOrit Pinhas-Hamiel
Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Unit, Edmond and Lily Safra Children s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160:933-6. 2006..To assess whether overweight children and adolescents are at an increased risk for vitamin B(12) deficiency...
Children diagnosed with diabetes during infancy have unique clinical characteristicsRevital Nimri
Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center of Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Horm Res 67:263-7. 2007..Characterizing clinical and biochemical features of children diagnosed with diabetes mellitus between the ages of 6-24 months...
Serum ferritin level as a predictor of impaired growth and puberty in thalassemia major patientsShlomit Shalitin
Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tikva, Israel
Eur J Haematol 74:93-100. 2005..It remains to be determined whether improving chelation by earlier initiation of DFO or by the combined use of DFO and deferiprone will lead to better growth and sexual development without DFO toxicity...
Childhood obesityPhyllis W Speiser
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Schneider Children s Hospital, 269 01 76th Avenue, New Hyde Park, New York 11040, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 90:1871-87. 2005..In developing a consensus statement, this international group has presented the evidence, developed recommendations, and provided a platform aimed toward future corrective action and ongoing debate in the international community...
Hypoglycemia in type 1 diabetes: a still unresolved problem in the era of insulin analogs and pump therapyShlomit Shalitin
Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, 14 Kaplan St, Petach Tikva 49202, Israel
Diabetes Care 31:S121-4. 2008....
Why pumps? Continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion for children and adolescents with type 1 diabetesNaomi Weintrob
Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqva, Israel
Isr Med Assoc J 6:271-5. 2004..Therefore, we believe that both CSII and MDI should be made available to the diabetic team and the patients to better tailor therapy, improve satisfaction and decrease the fear of hypoglycemia...
Maturity onset diabetes of the young--reviewGalia Gat-Yablonski
Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tikva
Pediatr Endocrinol Rev 3:514-20. 2006..The genetic findings have important clinical implications, allowing for proper genetic counseling, early diagnosis, and better care of patients...
Closing the loop: combining insulin pumps and glucose sensors in children with type 1 diabetes mellitusShlomit Shalitin
Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children s Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel
Pediatr Diabetes 7:45-9. 2006..This review focuses on the steps towards closing the loop in the attempts to develop an artificial pancreas and on recent ongoing research and future directions in this field...
