Is the Pill the Answer for Patients with the Female Athlete Triad?
April 2012
Elizabeth Joy, MD, MPH, FACSM
Invited Commentary, Current Sports Medicine Reports, 2012, 11(2): 54-55.
Dr. Elizabeth Joy provided an insightful commentary in Current Sports Medicine Reports in April 2012 on the prescription of oral contraceptives in female athletes with amenorrhea. This article addresses concerns [...]

Energy Deficiency, Menstrual Disturbances and Low Bone Mass: What Do Exercising Australian Women Know About The Female Athlete Triad?
March 2012
Stephanie M. Miller, Sonja Kukuljan, Anne I. Turner, Paige can der Pligt and Gaele Ducher
International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, 2012, 22, 131-138.
Miller and colleagues (2012) recently published a report [...]

“Clinical Manifestations of the Female Athlete Triad among Some Iranian Athletes”

Movaseghi S, Dadgostar H, Dahaghin S, Chimeh N, Alenabi T, Dadgostar E, Davatchi F.

Medicine & Science in Sports Exercise. 2011

Previously, no study had reported prevalence of the Female Athlete Triad in Asian or Islamic countries. The purpose of this study was to evaluate clinical [...]

Rauh MJ, Nichols JF, Barrack MT.
School of Exercise & Nutritional Sciences, San Diego State University, CA, USA. mrauh@rmuohp.edu
J Athl Train. 2010 May-Jun;45(3):243-52.
In this prospective study by Rauh and colleagues, the relationship among disordered eating, menstrual dysfunction, and low bone mineral density (BMD) and musculoskeletal injury among girls in high school sports was evaluated. 163 female [...]

Doyle-Lucas AF, Davy BM.
Department of Dance, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
J Dance Med Sci. 2011;15(2):65-75.
Prevention is the best treatment for the Triad and disordered eating. This purpose of this study by Doyle-Lucas and Davy was to develop, implement, and evaluate a theoretically based nutritional education intervention through a DVD lecture series (three [...]

Becker CB, McDaniel L, Bull S, Powell M, McIntyre K.
Department of Psychology, Trinity University, One Trinity Place, San Antonio, TX 78212-7200, United States.
This study was done to further investigate a crucial issue in the female athlete triad-that of education. Becker and colleagues evaluated whether two peer-led interventions could have a positive effect on athletes [...]

By Kathryn E. Ackerman, Taraneh Nazem, Dorota Chapko, Melissa Russell, Nara Mendes, Alexander P. Taylor, Mary L. Bouxsein, and Madhusmita Misra in J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 2011.
In a recent cross-sectional study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Ackerman and colleagues from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School examined the bone mineral [...]

Jeanne F. Nichols, PhD; Mitchell J. Rauh, PhD, PT, MPH; Mandra J. Lawson, MS, RD; Ming Ji, PhD; Hava-Shoshana Barkai, MS. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2006; 160:137-142
As of recent years, most literature surrounding the female athlete triad subsisted solely in collegiate female athletes. Data regarding high school-aged athletic females was severely lacking. [...]

September 2011
S. E. Tomten, A. T. Høstmark in Scand J Med Sci Sports 2006: 16:127–133
Exercising female athletes create an energy deficit with exercise for which they require an increase in energy intake to match expenditure and remain in a state of energy balance.  However, reported daily intake is often similar to, or even lower than [...]

By Noel Pollock, Claire Grogan, Mark Perry, Charles Pedlar, Karl Cooke, Dylan Morrissey, and Lygeri Dimitriou in International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, 2010, 20 419-426.
In a recent cross-sectional study by Pollock and colleagues, the associations between bone mineral density (BMD), menstrual status, disordered eating, and training volume were explored in 44 [...]