[Relations between some measures of the human body and menarcheal age (author's transl)].

It is considered which relations may exist between certain measures of the body (KM) and the moment of menarche (MZ). Statistical evaluations are based on the results of interrogations and anthropometry of Karl-Marx-Stadt school-girls, registered in 1974 under the main-topic "Fluoridation of drinking-water (TWF) and its possible effects on the physical process of growth and puberty of children and teen-agers". Considered measurements (height, weight, width of shoulders and pelvis, neck circumference as well as the Rohrer-index show higher means in menstruated individuals (M) than at non-menstruated ones (NM). The same comes true to girls of the same age and - concerning the width of shoulders and pelvis and neck circumference - also to girls of the same height. Advantage in development of M against NM individuals is 1-3 years, depending respectively on the considered dimensions of the body. Girls with an early MZ have also higher measurements of the body in their later physical development.