The significance of routine laboratory analyses in the assessment of teenage girls with eating disorders and weight loss

Eating and Weight Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 269-278

  Swenne, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anorexia nervosa; Eating disorder; Laboratory analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD EXAMINATION; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL MODEL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; REFERENCE VALUES; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 20444441520     PISSN: 11244909     EISSN: 15901262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03325081     Document Type: Article

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