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Female athlete triad

 

Female athlete triad in Asia is not well studied although the prevalence is not that low (about 2-4%). Many of us as practitioners could easily miss the diagnosis as the presenting symptoms might be vague and thus a high degree of suspicion is needed.

There was a study in 2009 among 67 elite female athletes in Malaysia aged between 13-30 years that were subdivided into the ‘leanness’ and ‘non-leanness’ groups.

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