Female medical students are estimated to have a higher risk for developing eating disorders than male medical students

Danish Medical Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Dissing, Agnete Skovlund ^a   Bak, Nanna Hasle ^a   Pedersen, Laura Erna Toftegaard ^a   Petersson, Birgit H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; EATING DISORDER; EATING HABIT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; UNDERWEIGHT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; DENMARK; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BODY MASS INDEX; DENMARK; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78951477712     PISSN: 16039629     EISSN: 16039629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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