Cultural trends and eating disorders

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 436-442

  Pike, Kathleen M ^a,b   Hoek, Hans W ^b,c,d   Dunne, Patricia E ^e  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c PARNASSIA PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology Teachers College Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Anorexia nervosa; Asia; Binge eating disorder; Bulimia nervosa; Culture; Eating disorders; Ethnicity; Middle east; Sociocultural transition

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ASIA; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BODY BUILD; BULIMIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; EATING DISORDER; FITNESS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NORTH AMERICA; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; WESTERN EUROPE; EATING DISORDERS; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; MIDDLE EAST; PREVALENCE;

ASIA; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EATING DISORDERS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AMERICA; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84927972836     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: 14736578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YCO.0000000000000100     Document Type: Review

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