EATING DISORDERS IN INDIA

Data on the nature and extent of major eating disorders, anorexia nervosa and bulimia is lacking in non-white, native populations of the developing world, leaving a gap in understanding the determinants of these disorders. In a study on 210 medical students examined by a two-stage survey method, 31...

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Autores principales: Srinivasan, T.N., Suresh, T.R., Jayaram, Vasantha, Fernandez, M. Peter
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1995
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2970945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743711
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Suresh, T.R.
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description Data on the nature and extent of major eating disorders, anorexia nervosa and bulimia is lacking in non-white, native populations of the developing world, leaving a gap in understanding the determinants of these disorders. In a study on 210 medical students examined by a two-stage survey method, 31 subjects were found to have distress relating to their eating habits and body size not amounting to criterion-based diagnosis of eating disorders. The characteristics of this eating distress syndrome are described in relation to the major eating disorders.
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spelling pubmed-29709452011-07-08 EATING DISORDERS IN INDIA Srinivasan, T.N. Suresh, T.R. Jayaram, Vasantha Fernandez, M. Peter Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Data on the nature and extent of major eating disorders, anorexia nervosa and bulimia is lacking in non-white, native populations of the developing world, leaving a gap in understanding the determinants of these disorders. In a study on 210 medical students examined by a two-stage survey method, 31 subjects were found to have distress relating to their eating habits and body size not amounting to criterion-based diagnosis of eating disorders. The characteristics of this eating distress syndrome are described in relation to the major eating disorders. Medknow Publications 1995 /pmc/articles/PMC2970945/ /pubmed/21743711 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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