Mental health impairment in underweight women: do body dissatisfaction and eating-disordered behavior play a role?

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>We sought to evaluate the hypothesis that mental health impairment in underweight women, where this occurs, is due to an association between low body weight and elevated levels of body dissatisfaction and/or eating-disordered behavio...

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Main Authors: Hay Phillipa, Rodgers Bryan, Mond Jonathan, Owen Cathy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-07-01
Series:BMC Public Health
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Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/11/547