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Personality traits among currently eating disordered, recovered and never ill first-degree female relatives of bulimic and control women.
Psychological medicine - 1 Nov 2000
Lilenfeld L R, Stein D, Bulik C M, Strober M, Plotnicov K, Pollice C, Rao R, Merikangas K R, Nagy L, Kaye W H
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: A combined family study and recovered study design was utilized to examine several hypothesized relationships between personality and bulimia nervosa (BN). METHODS: We studied 47 women with a lifetime history of DSM-III-R BN (31 currently ill and 16 recovered), 44 matched control women (CW) with no history of an eating disorder (ED), and their first-degree female relatives (N = 89 and N = 100,...
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