Prevalence of individual and combined components of the female athlete triad

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 985-996

  Gibbs, Jenna C ^a   Williams, Nancy I ^a   De Souza, Mary Jane ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE DENSITY; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; FEMALE ATHLETE TRIAD; HUMAN; MALE; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; YOUNG ADULT;

BONE DENSITY; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; FEMALE ATHLETE TRIAD SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876721301     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31827e1bdc     Document Type: Review

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