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A 2004 study of 526 military personnel confirmed the disorder's clear racial divide, and found incidence rates resembling that of the general U.S. population.
Randall Amster: The Most Common Disease You've Never Heard Of Randall Amster 2010
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A number of common food-borne infectious agents (such as salmonella and E-coli) are also potential hemolysis triggers, as are certain strains of ailments such as streptococcus and influenza, suggesting that better public health and hygiene practices could ameliorate the disorder's effects.
Randall Amster: The Most Common Disease You've Never Heard Of Randall Amster 2010
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Studies also have found that the earlier people find out they have celiac disease, the better able they are to head off the disorder's more debilitating effects.
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Professor Chris Hamnett, an expert on social polarization at King's College, London, said the latest disorder's mass looting set it apart from classic race riots in the U.K. and U.S., in which police stations and other symbols of authority were targeted just as much as businesses.
London Sweeps Up as Riots Simmer to North Guy Chazan 2011
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The disorder's severity varies widely in children.
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Scientists don't know the disorder's cause but believe it has a strong genetic component.
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"Slips" keep us in our eating disorder's grip and hold us back from true potential.
Troy Roness: A Birthday to Remember: Beating Eating and Exercise Disorders Troy Roness 2010
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The obsessive-compulsive disorder's version of this, the need to count, to tidy, wash one's hands until they bleed because by doing something a certain number of times in a certain way you can define it - I think this is merely an extreme extension of our need to overcome the arbitrary.
Counting Your Way to Safety Heather McDougal 2008
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These are things she would have to abandon should she answer the disorder's tantalizing beckon.
Blank Future 2010
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"Slips" keep us in our eating disorder's grip and hold us back from true potential.
Troy Roness: A Birthday to Remember: Beating Eating and Exercise Disorders 2010
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