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Eating disorders and associated risk factors among Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal university preparatory year female students in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Aisha M. Alwosaifer, Salwa A. Alawadh, Moataza M. Abdel Wahab, Leila A. Boubshait and Bader A. Almutairi
Saudi Medical Journal September 2018, 39 (9) 910-921; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.9.23314
Aisha M. Alwosaifer
From the Department of Family Medicine (Alwosaifer, Alawadh, ALmutairi), King Fahad Military Medical Complex, from the Department of Family Medicine (Abdel Wahab, Boubshait), Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Biostatistics (Abdel Wahab), High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Eygpt
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Salwa A. Alawadh
From the Department of Family Medicine (Alwosaifer, Alawadh, ALmutairi), King Fahad Military Medical Complex, from the Department of Family Medicine (Abdel Wahab, Boubshait), Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Biostatistics (Abdel Wahab), High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Eygpt
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Moataza M. Abdel Wahab
From the Department of Family Medicine (Alwosaifer, Alawadh, ALmutairi), King Fahad Military Medical Complex, from the Department of Family Medicine (Abdel Wahab, Boubshait), Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Biostatistics (Abdel Wahab), High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Eygpt
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Leila A. Boubshait
From the Department of Family Medicine (Alwosaifer, Alawadh, ALmutairi), King Fahad Military Medical Complex, from the Department of Family Medicine (Abdel Wahab, Boubshait), Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Biostatistics (Abdel Wahab), High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Eygpt
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Bader A. Almutairi
From the Department of Family Medicine (Alwosaifer, Alawadh, ALmutairi), King Fahad Military Medical Complex, from the Department of Family Medicine (Abdel Wahab, Boubshait), Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Biostatistics (Abdel Wahab), High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Eygpt
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vol. 39 no. 9 910-921
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.9.23314
PubMed 
30251735

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received June 10, 2018
  • Accepted July 10, 2018
  • Published online September 1, 2018.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Aisha M. Alwosaifer, MD, SBFM⇑,
  2. Salwa A. Alawadh, MD, SBFM,
  3. Moataza M. Abdel Wahab, PhD, MBChB,
  4. Leila A. Boubshait, ABFM, MD and
  5. Bader A. Almutairi, MD, SBFM
  1. From the Department of Family Medicine (Alwosaifer, Alawadh, ALmutairi), King Fahad Military Medical Complex, from the Department of Family Medicine (Abdel Wahab, Boubshait), Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Biostatistics (Abdel Wahab), High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Eygpt
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Aisha M. Alwosaifer, Department of Family Medicine, King Fahad Military Medical Complex, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: dr.aisha.mohanna{at}gmail.com ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5927-2161
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