Michael Hermanussen

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Michael Hermanussen (born April 26, 1955 in Hamburg ) is a German pediatrician and has been a professor of medicine at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel since 2004 . He has mainly published papers on growth research and nutrition .

Life

Hermanussen studied medicine and worked from 1982 to 1989 as a pediatrician at the University Children's Hospital in Kiel. He studies the growth and development of children ( auxology ) and for the first time described miniature growth spurts . Since 1990 he has established and operates joint research with scientists at home and abroad. He teaches as part of the faculty at Kiel University. Since 1992 he has organized national and international conferences on growth and nutrition. From 2003 to 2011 he was on the board of the Society for Anthropology and co-editor of the Anthropological Gazette. He is the founder and chairman of the German Society for Auxology.

Research areas

Hermanussen developed new mathematical methods for the improved diagnosis of growth disorders and a new computing technique for determining the later adult height of a child . He introduced mini- knemometry , a new precision technique for measuring children's growth. This procedure determines the lower leg length so precisely that growth can be measured within a few days. He also developed a comparable technique for measuring rats , in which growth is visible within hours. These studies were important in understanding the effects of growth hormone . His research led to a significant improvement in the previous treatment with growth hormone . Hermanussen showed for the first time that anorexic children not only do not grow, but can even shrink in length.

Since 2002 he has been concerned with nutrition and obesity , in particular with the effect of glutamate on the regulation of satiety . In this context, Hermanussen demonstrated for the first time that German convenience food products contain neurotransmitters .

Works (selection)

  • Growth as a movement process , habilitation thesis, Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, 1992 ( ISBN 3-13-771401-X )
  • Der Gefräßig-Maker , Hermanussen M & Gonder U, Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart 2009 ( ISBN 978-3777615707 )
  • Auxology - Studying Human Growth and Development , Hermanussen M (ed), Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 2013 ( ISBN 978-3-510-65278-5 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CAU personnel reports 2004. Retrieved on January 8, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Hermanussen M, Geiger-Benoit K, Burmeister J, Sippell WG (1988) Periodical changes of short term growth velocity ("mini growth spurts") in human growth. Ann Hum Biol 15: 103-109
  3. ^ Website of the Anthropological Scoreboard. Retrieved January 7, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Hermanussen M, Largo RH, Molinari L (2001) Canalisation in human growth: a widely accepted concept reconsidered. Eur J Pediatr 160: 163-7
  5. ↑ Hermanussen M, Meigen C (2007) Phase variation in child and adolescent growth. Int J Biostatistics 3: 1-16
  6. ↑ Hermanussen M, Cole TJ (2003) The calculation of target height reconsidered. Horm Res 59: 180-3
  7. ↑ Hermanussen M (1988) Knemometry, a new tool for the investigation of growth. Eur J Pediatr 147: 350-355
  8. ↑ Hermanussen M, Geiger-Benoit K, Burmeister J, Sippell WG (1988) Periodical changes of short term growth velocity ("mini growth spurts") in human growth. Ann Hum Biol 15: 103-109
  9. ↑ Hermanussen M, Seele K (1997) Mini-Knemometry: An accurate technique for lower leg length measurements in early childhood. Ann Hum Biol 24: 307-313
  10. ↑ Hermanussen M (2003) The measurement of short term growth. J Pediatr Endocrinol Metabol 16: 969-971
  11. ↑ Hermanussen M, Rol del Lama M, Burmeister J, Fernandez-Tresguerres JA (1995). Micro-knemometry: An accurate technique of growth measurement in rats. Physiol Behavior 58: 347-352
  12. ↑ Hermanussen M, Rol de Lama M, Tresguerres JAF, Grasedyck L, Burmeister J (1998) Short term growth: evidence for chaotic series of mini growth spurts in rat growth. Physiol Behav 64: 7-13
  13. ↑ Hermanussen M, Geiger-Benoit, K, Sippell WG (1985) Catch-up growth following transfer from three times weekly im to daily sc administration of hGH in GH deficient patients, monitored by knemometry. Acta Endocrinol 109: 163-168
  14. ↑ Hermanussen M, Geiger-Benoit K, Burmeister J, Sippell WG (1987) Can the knemometer shorten the time for growth rate assessment? Acta Pediatr Scand Suppl 337: 30-36
  15. ↑ Hermanussen M, Geiger-Benoit, K, Sippell WG (1987) "Negative growth" in anorexia nervosa assessed by knemometry. Eur J Pediatr 146: 561-564
  16. ↑ Greedy for glutamate - An article from unizeit, CAU. Retrieved November 17, 2012 .
  17. ↑ Hermanussen M. et al .: Obesity, voracity and short stature: the impact of glutamate on the regulation of appetite. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2006; 60: 25-31
  18. ↑ Hermanussen M (2008) No consensus on glutamate. Eur J Clin Nutr 62: 1252-3
  19. ↑ Hermanussen M, Gonder U, Jakobs C, Stegemann D, Hoffmann G. Patterns of free amino acids in German convenience food products: marked mismatch between label information and composition. Eur J Clin Nutr 2009 Sept 23 [Epub ahead of print]
personal data
SURNAME Hermanussen, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg