TY - JOUR
T1 - Running — An Analogue of Anorexia?
AU - Yates, Alayne
AU - Leehey, Kevin
AU - Shisslak, Catherine M.
PY - 1983/2/3
Y1 - 1983/2/3
N2 - IN the early 1970s only a few somewhat idiosyncratic, health-oriented people jogged. Since then distance running has become a cultural fascination for 31 million people in the United States1 and has spawned a billion-dollar sporting-goods industry, as well as a proliferation of sports-medicine clinics to treat the stress fractures, avulsed tendons, and assorted minor injuries attendant on profound exertion. In almost exactly the same time span, anorexia nervosa — previously thought to be a rare disorder — has increased in incidence to such an extent that it is now regarded as a public-health problem.2 Within the past year several serious.
AB - IN the early 1970s only a few somewhat idiosyncratic, health-oriented people jogged. Since then distance running has become a cultural fascination for 31 million people in the United States1 and has spawned a billion-dollar sporting-goods industry, as well as a proliferation of sports-medicine clinics to treat the stress fractures, avulsed tendons, and assorted minor injuries attendant on profound exertion. In almost exactly the same time span, anorexia nervosa — previously thought to be a rare disorder — has increased in incidence to such an extent that it is now regarded as a public-health problem.2 Within the past year several serious.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM198302033080504
DO - 10.1056/NEJM198302033080504
M3 - Article
C2 - 6848935
AN - SCOPUS:0020672761
VL - 308
SP - 251
EP - 255
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
SN - 0028-4793
IS - 5
ER -