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Emma Forsén Mantilla1, Katja Bergsten2, Andreas Birgegård1

  • 1Karolinska Institute, Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience, Resource Center for Eating Disorders, Norra Stationsgatan 69, Plan 7, 113 64 Stockholm, Sweden.

Eating Behaviors
|January 14, 2014
PubMed

Keywords:
AdolescentsEating disorderGender differencesSASBSelf-image

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