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Michael Hermanussen (born 26 April 1955 in Hamburg) is a German pediatrician and professor at the University of Kiel. He is known for his work on growth and nutrition.

Life

Hermanussen studied medicine and worked as a pediatrician at the University of Kiel from 1982 until 1989. He investigated growth and child development (auxology) and first described mini growth spurts. Since 1990 he cooperates in international joint projects with scientists and also works in a general pediatric office. He organizes national and international meetings on growth and nutrition. From 2003 to 2011 he was a member of the scientific board of the German society for Anthropology and he is chief editor of ”Human Biology and Public Health”. He is the founder and head of the Auxological Society.

Scientific Work

Hermanussen developed new mathematical methods for improved diagnostics of growth disorders and a new technique for estimating final adult height. He developed mini-knemometry, a new and accurate technique for growth measurements in children. This device determines the lower leg length at an accuracy that growth becomes measurable within a few days. In addition he developed a similar technology for measuring growth in rats within intervals of a few hours. This technology was important for the better understanding of the effects of growth hormone. His investigations resulted in a significant improvement of growth hormone therapies. For the first time, Hermanussen showed that anorexia nervosa patients do not only stop growing they even can shrink.

Since 2002 he works in nutrition and obesity, with particular respect to monosodium glutamate on appetite regulation. During this project Hermanussen showed for the first time that convenience food contains neurotransmitters. In the global debate on the causes of stunting, he argues that stunting is not a synonym of malnutrition, but is socially conditioned.

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Footnotes

  1. "new staff at CAU, 2004" (in German). 2009-01-08.
  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 (2): 103–109. doi:10.1080/03014468800009521.
  3. "website of "Gesellschaft für Anthropologie"". 2009-01-07. Archived from the original on 2010-01-27.
  4. "website of "Human Biology and Public Health"". 2023-04-05.
  5. Hermanussen M, Largo RH, Molinari L (2001). "Canalisation in human growth: a widely accepted concept reconsidered". Eur J Pediatr. 160 (3): 163–7. doi:10.1007/s004310000706.
  6. Hermanussen M, Meigen C (2007). "Phase variation in child and adolescent growth". Int J Biostat. 3: 1–16. doi:10.2202/1557-4679.1045.
  7. Hermanussen M, Cole TJ (2003). "The calculation of target height reconsidered". Horm Res. 59 (4): 180–3. doi:10.1159/000069321.
  8. Hermanussen M (1988). "Knemometry, a new tool for the investigation of growth". Eur J Pediatr. 147 (4): 350–355. doi:10.1007/bf00496409.
  9. 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 (2): 103–109. doi:10.1080/03014468800009521.
  10. Hermanussen M, Seele K (1997). "Mini-Knemometry: An accurate technique for lower leg length measurements in early childhood". Ann Hum Biol. 24 (4): 307–313. doi:10.1080/03014469700005052.
  11. Hermanussen M (2003). "The measurement of short term growth". J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 16 (7): 969–971. doi:10.1515/JPEM.2003.16.7.969.
  12. Hermanussen M, Rol de Lama MA, Lama M, Burmeister J, Fernandez-Tresguerres JA (1995). "Mikro-knemometry: An accurate technique of growth measurement in rats". Physiol Behav. 58 (2): 347–352. doi:10.1016/0031-9384(95)00062-n.
  13. 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. doi:10.1016/s0031-9384(98)00023-7.
  14. 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 (2): 163–168. doi:10.1530/acta.0.1090163.
  15. Hermanussen M, Geiger-Benoit K, Burmeister J, Sippell WG (1987). "Can the knemometer shorten the time for growth rate assessment?". Acta Paediatr Scand Suppl. 337: 30–36. doi:10.1111/j.1651-2227.1987.tb17124.x.
  16. Hermanussen M, Geiger-Benoit K, Sippell WG (1987). "Negative growth" in anorexia nervosa assessed by knemometry". Eur J Pediatr. 146 (6): 561–564. doi:10.1007/bf02467353.
  17. Hermanussen M, et al. (2006). ": Obesity, voracity and short stature: the impact of glutamate on the regulation of appetite". European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 60: 25–31. doi:10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602263. PMID 16132059.
  18. Hermanussen M (2008). "No consensus on glutamate". Eur J Clin Nutr. 62 (10): 1252–3. doi:10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602828. PMID 17538530.
  19. Hermanussen M, Gonder U, Jakobs C, Stegemann D, Hoffmann G (2009). "Patterns of free amino acids in German convenience food products: marked mismatch between label information and composition". Eur J Clin Nutr. doi:10.1038/ejcn.2009.116.
  20. Scheffler C, Hermanussen M, Bogin B, et al. (2020). "Stunting is not a synonym of malnutrition". Eur J Clin Nutr. 74 (3): 377–386. doi:10.1038/s41430-019-0439-4.
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