Scoliosis in adolescents reduces the risk of eating disorders
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Materials and methods Design: cross-sectional study. Population: 187 consecutive adolescent girls with idiopathic scoliosis (mean Cobb angle 26°, range 11-73°, age 15.2±2.5; 24% juveniles, 76% adolescent type); 93 school girl controls (age 14.9±1.0). All the subjects answered the Italian validated questionnaire EAT-26 about eating habitude in order to retrieve eating disorders. BMI was calculated for all subjects and compared to reference data. Statistical Analysis: chi-square test and ANOVA.
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