Racial/ethnic and gender differences in concern with weight and in bulimic behaviors among adolescents

Obesity Research

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 447-454

  Field, Alison E ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Bulimia; Ethnicity; Race; Sex

Indexed keywords

LAXATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BULIMIA; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; NEGRO; RACE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY WEIGHT; BULIMIA; CATHARTICS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0031226532     PISSN: 10717323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1550-8528.1997.tb00669.x     Document Type: Article

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