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. 1995 Jan-Mar;37(1):26–30.

EATING DISORDERS IN INDIA

TN Srinivasan 1,*, TR Suresh 2, Vasantha Jayaram 3, M Peter Fernandez 4
PMCID: PMC2970945  PMID: 21743711

Abstract

Data on the nature and extent of major eating disorders, anorexia nervosa and bulimia is lacking in non-white, native populations of the developing world, leaving a gap in understanding the determinants of these disorders. In a study on 210 medical students examined by a two-stage survey method, 31 subjects were found to have distress relating to their eating habits and body size not amounting to criterion-based diagnosis of eating disorders. The characteristics of this eating distress syndrome are described in relation to the major eating disorders.

Keywords: eating disorders, medical students, survey, eating distress syndrome

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