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Childhood obsessive-compulsive personality traits in adult women with eating disorders: defining a broader eating disorder phenotype.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Feb 2003
Anderluh Marija Brecelj, Tchanturia Kate, Rabe-Hesketh Sophia, Treasure Janet
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OBJECTIVE: The authors retrospectively examined a spectrum of childhood traits that reflect obsessive-compulsive personality in adult women with eating disorders and assessed the predictive value of the traits for the development of eating disorders. METHOD: In a case-control design, 44 women with anorexia nervosa, 28 women with bulimia nervosa, and 28 healthy female comparison subjects were assessed with an...
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