Basic Medicine:Secrets of the Sequence（41）
Women who starve themselves to extreme thinness and sometimes to death may be driven as much by their genes as by society's pressures. Anorexia nervosa is a devastating illness. It is relatively rare–affecting less than 1% of the population. Sufferers are invariably women who starve themselves dangerously thin. It is the result of our obsession with thinness. But recent research is focusing attention on what may be a genetic link.
- Added：2006
- Country：America
- Duration：30
- Time of update：2011/8/16 10:16:10