Female athletes: Factors impacting successful performance

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 190-194

  VanHeest, Jaci L ^a   Mahoney, Carrie E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROUS FUMARATE; FERROUS GLUCONATE; FERROUS SULFATE; IRON; LIOTHYRONINE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

AMENORRHEA; ANEMIA; ATHLETE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CALORIC INTAKE; COMPETITION; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDURANCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ERYTHROCYTE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GLOSSITIS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; IRON OVERLOAD; OLIGOMENORRHEA; PERFORMANCE; REVIEW; SPORT; SPORTING EVENT;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; SPORTS;

EID: 34250667805     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11932-007-0027-6     Document Type: Review

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