Disordered eating and menstrual dysfunction in adolescent female athletes participating in school-sponsored sports

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 561-564

  Roberts, Timothy A ^a   Glen, Jennifer ^a   Kreipe, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING DISORDER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; METABOLIC RATE; OLIGOMENORRHEA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY AMENORRHEA; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SECONDARY AMENORRHEA; SPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 0038154076     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000992280304200613     Document Type: Article

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