Disordered eating, menstrual irregularity, and bone mineral density in female runners

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 711-719

  Cobb, Kristin L ^a,f   Bachrach, Laura K ^a   Greendale, Gail ^b   Marcus, Robert ^a   Neer, Robert M ^c   Nieves, Jeri ^d   Sowers, Mary Fran ^e   Brown Jr , Byron W ^a   Gopalakrishnan, Geetha ^a   Luetters, Crystal ^a   Tanner, Heather K ^a   Ward, Bridget ^a   Kelsey, Jennifer L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amenorrhea; Eating attitudes; Eating disorder inventory; Female athlete triad; Female athletes; Long distance; Oligomenorrhea; Osteopenia; Osteoporosis

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; EATING DISORDER; EATING DISORDER INVENTORY; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; HIP; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MENSTRUATION; OLIGOMENORRHEA; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; RUNNING; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE DENSITY; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUNNING; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 0038371300     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000064935.68277.E7     Document Type: Article

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