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Prevalence, heritability, and prospective risk factors for anorexia nervosa.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 Mar 2006
Bulik Cynthia M, Sullivan Patrick F, Tozzi Federica, Furberg Helena, Lichtenstein Paul, Pedersen Nancy L
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CONTEXT: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a serious mental illness with marked morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVE: To explore the prevalence, heritability, and prospectively assessed risk factors for AN in a large population-based cohort of Swedish twins. DESIGN: During a 4-year period ending in 2002, all living, contactable, interviewable, and consenting twins in the Swedish Twin Registry (N = 31 406) born between...
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