title: [The overweight and underweight girl: from findings to prevention].
abstract: Both preponderance as well as underweight normally starts in childhood and puberty and hurt the fate of young women mostly a life long. Weight and fat tissue as an energy storage regulates through the hormone Leptin appetite, food intake and therefore the energy reserves. With this hormone exist a common pathophysiological regulation unit, which causes in case of preponderance an increased, in case of underweight a decreased cyclus activity. Besides short term influences (like the development of the PCO-syndrome and/or fatigue fractures) the long-term consequences especially the accumulation of the visceral fat, the cardio-vascular diseases, metabolic syndrome, type-II-diabetes, mammary- and endometrial carcinoma play a special role. On the other hand chronic underweight very frequently leads through chronic estrogen defect to osteopenia, osteoporosis and therefore to cyclus disturbances, sterility and osteoporosis. A simple finding like weight, has thus an important predictive quality for later illnesses and their prevention.
authors.affiliation: Gynäkologische Praxisklinik, Ulm, Germany. drfredwolf@aol.com
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Wolf
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004734:Energy Metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D020738:Leptin / Q000502:physiology; D008019:Life Style; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013851:Thinness / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control*
chemical_list: D020738:Leptin
vernacular_title: Das übergewichtige und das untergewichtige Mädchen: Vom Befund zur Prävention.