Are young women in Japan at high risk for eating disorders?: Decreased BMI in young females from 1960 to 1995

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 279-281

  Kiriike, Nobuo ^a   Nagata, Toshihiko ^a   Sirata, Kumiko ^b   Yamamoto, Naoki ^c  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Graduate School of Osaka Institutes of Technology   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Eating disorders; Japan; Young females

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BODY MASS; BULIMIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; DIET, REDUCING; EATING DISORDERS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL CONDITIONS;

EID: 0031807398     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.1998.00387.x     Document Type: Article

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