Specificity of eating disorders diagnoses in families of probands with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 261-264

  Woodside, D Blake ^a   Field, L Leigh ^b   Garfinkel, Paul E ^b   Heinmaa, Margus ^b  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BULIMIA; EATING DISORDER; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0031697994     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-440X(98)90033-5     Document Type: Article

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