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Screening for abnormal eating attitudes in an unselected population of 16 year old Dublin schoolgirls

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Fitzgerald, M., Horgan, M. Screening for abnormal eating attitudes in an unselected population of 16 year old Dublin schoolgirls. I.J.M.S. 160, 170–172 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02961665

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