Clinical manifestations of the female athlete triad among some iranian athletes

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 958-965

  Movaseghi, Shafieh ^a   Dadgostar, Haleh ^b   Dahaghin, Saeideh ^a   Chimeh, Narges ^c   Alenabi, Talia ^d   Dadgostar, Elham ^d   Davatchi, Fereydon ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d Sports Medicine Federation of Islamic Republic of Iran   (Iran)

Author keywords

eating disorder; female; iran; islamic; low bone mineral density; triad

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE ATHLETE TRIAD; HUMAN; IRAN; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FEMALE ATHLETE TRIAD SYNDROME; HUMANS; IRAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859897914     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31823bd057     Document Type: Article

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