Nutritional status in women with anorexia nervosa: Mortality risk consideration.
2022
Tomoyuki Kawada
Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8602, Japan. Electronic address: kawada@nms.ac.jp.
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MeSH Term
Description
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D009752
Nutritional Status
State of the body in relation to the consumption and utilization of nutrients.
Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000856
Anorexia Nervosa
An eating disorder that is characterized by the lack or loss of APPETITE, known as ANOREXIA. Other features include excess fear of becoming OVERWEIGHT; BODY IMAGE disturbance; significant WEIGHT LOSS; refusal to maintain minimal normal weight; and AMENORRHEA. This disorder occurs most frequently in adolescent females. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 1994)
January 1987,
International journal for vitamin and nutrition research. Internationale Zeitschrift fur Vitamin- und Ernahrungsforschung. Journal international de vitaminologie et de nutrition,