Maternal vitamin D deficiency remains a common but under-addressed nutritional problem across high-, middle-, and low-income settings, with reported prevalence ranging from single digits to more than ninety per cent depending on region, skin pigmentation, latitude, and dietary pa...
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Research Article10.9734/ajfrn/2026/v5i3423
Glucagon occupies an unusual position in clinical endocrinology. The same 29-amino-acid peptide serves as a provocative agent for pituitary function testing, as an emergency treatment for severe hypoglycaemia, as a continuous infusion in hyperinsulinaemic states of infancy, and,...
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Research Article10.9734/jamps/2026/v28i9889
Adequate sleep is increasingly recognised as a modifiable determinant of somatic growth and endocrine function during childhood and adolescence, yet the strength and consistency of this relationship across different sleep dimensions remain incompletely resolved. This critical nar...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2026/v24i91421
Maternal hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP)—encompassing chronic hypertension, gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, and superimposed preeclampsia—complicate a substantial proportion of pregnancies worldwide and are increasingly recognised as determinants of offspring he...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpcb/2026/v9i1219
Linear growth in childhood is governed by a dense network of genetic, endocrine, and environmental signals, among which nutritional status occupies a central regulatory position. Body mass index, its standardised expression as a standard deviation score, height standard deviation...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2026/v16i7555
Background: Premature ovarian insufficiency is characterised by impaired ovarian function before 40 years of age and may present in adolescents and young women with delayed puberty, primary or secondary amenorrhoea, incomplete pubertal progression, hypo-oestrogenism, and elevated...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrre/2026/v9i1136
Ashraf T. Soliman, Fawzia Alyafei, Nada Mwafak Al Aaraj, Noor Sadeq Abdullah Hamed, Shayma Ahmed & Nada Soliman·Asian Journal of Pediatric Research·2026
Background: Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) is a prevalent micronutrient disorder in childhood, with well-recognised haematological effects and increasingly reported endocrine consequences. Objectives: This review synthesised evidence on the spectrum, risk factors and reversibility...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2026/v16i6547
Background: Female pubertal onset is a complex, multifactorial biological event with substantial global variation. Secular trends show progressive earlier thelarche and menarche across continents, yet biochemical thresholds for diagnosing pubertal onset and central precocious pub...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrre/2026/v9i1132