DELAYED MENARCHE AND AMENORRHEA IN BALLET DANCERS
DELAYED MENARCHE AND AMENORRHEA IN BALLET DANCERS
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DOI：
10.1056/nejm198007033030105
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发表时间：
1980-01-01
影响因子：
158.5
通讯作者：
VINCENT, L
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作者：
FRISCH, RE;WYSHAK, G;VINCENT, L
就读于专业学校或在公司跳舞的年轻女性芭蕾舞者，在那些非常推崇苗条的公司里，会限制她们的食物摄入量，并且非常活跃。1这些舞蹈者中的一些人不寻常的饮食习惯和活动水平与月经周期的缺乏有关。1处于平均活动水平的女孩和妇女的闭经和月经初潮晚与营养不良2和体重减轻10至20公斤有关。身高为正常体重的15% 3 -5;这样的体重减轻明显地将脂肪/瘦肉比率降低到低于临界水平。
YOUNG female ballet dancers attending professional schools or dancing in companies in which thinness is much admired restrict their food intake and are highly active.1The unusual eating habits and levels of activity of some of these dancers have been related to lack of menstrual cycles.1Amenorrhea and late menarche among girls and women with average activity levels are associated with undernutrition2and weight loss in the range of 10 to 15 per cent of the normal weight for height3–5; such weight loss apparently reduces the fat/lean ratio to less than a critical level.3We report here on 89 . . .