Expanding the Female Athlete Triad concept to address a public health issue

Performance Enhancement and Health

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 10-27

  Wheatley, Sean ^a   Khan, Saira ^a   Székely, Andrea D ^b   Naughton, Declan P ^a   Petróczi, Andrea ^a  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Disordered eating; Energy deficiency; Female Athlete Triad; Menstrual dysfunction; Over exercise; Perfectionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864313718     PISSN: 22112669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peh.2012.03.001     Document Type: Review

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