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Weight preoccupation among infertile women
Author(s) -
Allison Stephen,
Kalucy Ross,
Gilchrist Peter,
Jones Warren
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/1098-108x(198811)7:6<743::aid-eat2260070603>3.0.co;2-v
Subject(s) - dieting , underweight , overweight , distress , anovulation , ovulation , psychology , gynecology , medicine , weight loss , infertility , normal weight , obstetrics , obesity , clinical psychology , pregnancy , insulin resistance , polycystic ovary , biology , hormone , genetics
An unselected group of 30 women attending an infertility clinic was studied in a preliminary investigation to determine relationships between weight, abnormal eating attitudes, symptomatic distress, and impairment of ovulation. Those women in the group with anovulatory menstrual cycles were compared with the women who were ovulating. The anovultory women were found to be more preoccupied with weight and dieting. This weight preoccupation was not related to significant group differences in body weight or symptomatic distress. There was a tendency for the anovulatory women to be overweight or underweight, but this did not reach significance.