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What eating disorder are males more likely to be affected by more than women?
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Anorexia Athletica (excessive exercise to gain muscle and physique)
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What is the main reason that sex-linked disorder are most often observed in males?
Males are most likely to have the disorder.
What is the main reason sex linked disorders are the most often observed in males?
Males are most likely to have the disorder.
A genetic pedigree showing that only males are affected by a certain disorder is evidence of what type of inheritance?
Sex-linked.
Where can I locate a private treatment center for males that specializes in eating disorders?
Rogers Memorial Hospital is on the cutting edge of eating disorder treatment, especially men with eating disorders. Look into their website here: http://www.rogerseatingdisorders.org/. They employ many of the top doctors and researchers in the eating disorder field.
What percentage of male and female athletes suffer from an eating disorder?
An estimated 1 in every 200 people in the world is suspected to suffer from some form of an eating disorder. Of that, 90% are women and 10% are men.
Why are sex linked disorders seen in mostly males?
Males are most likely to have the disorder.
Are males most likely to have an x-linked disorders?
Males are much more likely to be affected by an x-linked disorder because they only have one copy of the x-allele, so if they carry an abnormal version, it will be expressed. On the other hand, since women have two copies of the x-allele, they would need two copies of the abnormal gene to show the disease.
What percentage of men and women have eating disorders?
Up to 10 million females and 1 million males struggle with eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. The Binge eating disorder is experienced by millions more.Up to 80 percent of women show signs of an eating disorder at some point.Up to 24 million people in the United States experience some form of an eating disorder.
Are there any males with an eating disorder?
many men/boys suffer for eating disorders however, because it was seen as something associated with females not many men spoke out about it. but as in the media a while back the British MP John Prescott suffered from Bulimia. There is a growing number of males with eating disorders coming out.
How many males vs females will develop an eating disorder?
For eating disorders, 1 male with suffer for every 9 females. If there were 100 people with eating disorders, 10 would be men and 90 would be women.
Who is affected by a maternal grandfather who is color blind?
it should be the males mostly because males are more likely to become colorblind than females. colorblind females are very rare.
A recessive gene located on the X chromosome is the cause of hemophilia in affected individuals. Males are more likely to have hemophilia than females because?
Males only have one copy of the X chromosome
