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Over the last few decades, the pediatric endocrine community has noticed a rise in metabolic consequences of childhood obesity. Thus, this issue of Pediatric Annals highlights these consequences to make the general pediatrician aware of these conditions with the goal of identifying them early to avoid the complications likely to arise if left untreated. Furthermore, this issue intends to keep the general pediatrician fully informed regarding emerging diabetes technologies, genetic causes of diabetes, endocrinologic complications of childhood cancer, and the concept of transition of care models. These topics are pertinent to the practice of pediatrics today.
Several hypotheses have been explored surrounding the increasing incidence of diabetes and other consequences of obesity, such as vitamin D deficiency and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). One such hypothesis is the “accelerator hypothesis” with obesity as the accelerator. Obesity is likely one cause of the appearance of the metabolic derangements that are being discovered at an alarming rate. We are grappling with...