Familial aggregation of eating disorders: Results from a controlled family study of bulimia nervosa

International Journal of Eating Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 211-215

  Stein, Daniel ^a   Lilenfeld, Lisa R ^a   Plotnicov, Katherine ^a   Pollice, Christine ^a   Rao, Radhika ^a   Strober, Michael ^b   Kaye, Walter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Eating disorders; Familial aggregation; Lifetime histories

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BULIMIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EATING DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BULIMIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 0032800213     PISSN: 02763478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-108X(199909)26:2<211::AID-EAT11>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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