"Bulimia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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Eating an excess amount of food in a short period of time, as seen in the disorder of BULIMIA NERVOSA. It is caused by an abnormal craving for food, or insatiable hunger also known as "ox hunger".
| Descriptor ID |
D002032
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.888.821.645.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Bulimia- Bulimia
- Bulimias
- Binge Eating
- Eating, Binge
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Bulimia" by people in Profiles.
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Mindfulness meditation as an intervention for binge eating, emotional eating, and weight loss: a systematic review. Eat Behav. 2014 Apr; 15(2):197-204.
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Baseline predictors of missed visits in the Look AHEAD study. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2014 Jan; 22(1):131-40.
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Factor structure and predictive utility of the Binge Eating Scale in bariatric surgery candidates. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2013 Nov-Dec; 9(6):942-8.
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Food addiction: true or false? Curr Opin Gastroenterol. 2010 Mar; 26(2):165-9.
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Psychosocial correlates of binge eating in Hispanic, African American, and Caucasian women presenting for bariatric surgery. Eat Behav. 2010 Apr; 11(2):79-84.