Prevalence, heritability, and prospective risk factors for anorexia nervosa

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 305-312

  Bulik, Cynthia M ^a,b   Sullivan, Patrick F ^a   Tozzi, Federica ^a   Furberg, Helena ^a   Lichtenstein, Paul ^c   Pedersen, Nancy L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSIS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SATISFACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWEDEN; TWINS; ZYGOSITY;

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PERSONALITY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SWEDEN; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 33644751796     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.63.3.305     Document Type: Article

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