Menarche, puberty, and first sexual activities in eating-disordered patients as compared with a psychiatric and a nonpsychiatric control group

International Journal of Eating Disorders

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 705-710

  Mangweth Matzek, Barbara ^a   Rupp, Claudia Ines ^a   Hausmann, Armand ^a   Kemmler, Georg ^a   Biebl, Wilfried ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Eating disorders; Menarche; Puberty; Sexual activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BULIMIA; CHILDHOOD; CHRONOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; MENTAL PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY IMAGE; BULIMIA NERVOSA; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; COITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENARCHE; PUBERTY; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 36148936023     PISSN: 02763478     EISSN: 1098108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eat.20431     Document Type: Article

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