Season of birth and anorexia nervosa

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 198, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 404-405

  Disanto, Giulio ^a   Handel, Adam E ^a   Para, Andrea E ^a   Ramagopalan, Sreeram V ^a,b   Handunnetthi, Lahiru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; WALTER AND ELWOOD TEST;

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS;

EID: 79955530400     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.110.085944     Document Type: Article

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