Prenatal Hormone Exposure and Risk for Eating Disorders
Open Access
- 1 March 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 65 (3) , 329-336
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2007.47
Abstract
Clear sex differences in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa exist, in which females outnumber males by about 10:1.1 Sociocultural differences, such as pressure for thinness in women, have typically been used to explain this sex difference.2,3 However, biological factors may also play a significant role.4Keywords
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