Bone abnormalities in constitutional thinness
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Bone abnormalities in constitutional thinness
We would like to address some comments concerning the article titled ‘Thin healthy women have a similar low bone mass to women with anorexia nervosa’ by Fernández-Garcı́a et al. . While bone loss has often been reported in anorexia nervosa, the interesting part of this paper is the finding of a low total and lumbar bone mineral density in ‘thin healthy women’. In order to define a ‘thin healthy ...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Nutrition
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0007-1145,1475-2662
DOI: 10.1017/s0007114509991012