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Marked ascites and serum carbohydrate antigen (CA) 125 elevation in a patient with anorexia nervosa
Author(s) -
Suwabe Tatsuya,
Taguchi Manabu,
Takeshita Akira,
Ozawa Yasunori
Publication year - 2005
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/eat.20154
Subject(s) - anorexia nervosa , ascites , anorexia , medicine , endocrinology , elevation (ballistics) , eating disorders , psychiatry , geometry , mathematics
These findings suggest, for psychiatrically hospitalized adolescent females, that different patterns of factors may contribute to the maintenance of eating and body image disturbances across ethnic groups. Future research testing models of the etiology or maintenance of these disturbances needs to include ethnicity to ascertain whether the hypothesized components operate differently by ethnicity. © 2005 by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.