The female athlete triad: Do female athletes need to take special care to avoid low energy availability?

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1694-1700

  Loucks, Anne B ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADAPTATION; AMENORRHEA; ATHLETE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; BONE TURNOVER; CALORIC INTAKE; CALORIC RESTRICTION; EATING DISORDER; ENERGY AVAILABILITY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FEMALE ATHLETE TRIAD; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; OVARY FUNCTION; REVIEW;

AMENORRHEA; BONE DENSITY; CALORIC RESTRICTION; EATING DISORDERS; ENERGY INTAKE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OSTEOPOROSIS; SEX FACTORS; SPORTS; SYNDROME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33749489833     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000239397.01203.83     Document Type: Review

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