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Isabel Baenas1, Mikel Etxandi2, Fernando Fernández-Aranda3

  • 1Unidad de Psicología Clínica, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge-Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), Barcelona, España; Grupo de Investigación de Psiconeurobiología de los Trastornos de la Conducta Alimentaria y Adicciones Comportamentales, Programa de Neurociencias, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), Barcelona, España; CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, España; Programa de Doctorado en Medicina e Investigación Traslacional, Universidad de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, España.

Medicina Clinica
|August 19, 2023
PubMed

Keywords:
Anorexia nerviosaAnorexia nervosaBulimia nerviosaBulimia nervosaComplicaciones médicasMedical complications

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