Very preterm birth, birth trauma, and the risk of anorexia nervosa among girls.
Open Access
- 1 July 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 56 (7) , 634-638
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.56.7.634
Abstract
ALTHOUGH anorexia nervosa is a common and distinctive syndrome in industrial countries, its etiology is poorly understood. Genetic factors are thought to play a role1-3; as for other risk factors, no consistent results, to our knowledge, have been reported in the literature.4Keywords
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