• 2023 International Olympic Committee's (IOC) consensus statement on Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs) 

      Mountjoy, Margo; Ackerman, Kathryn E.; Bailey, David M.; Burke, Louise M.; Constantini, Naama; Hackney, Anthony C.; Heikura, Ida A.; Melin, Anna; Pensgaard, Anne Marte; Stellingwerff, Trent; Sundgot-Borgen, Jorunn; Torstveit, Monica Klungland; Jacobsen, Astrid Uhrenholdt; Verhagen, Evert ALM; Budgett, Richard; Engebretsen, Lars; Erdener, Uğur (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs) was first introduced in 2014 by the International Olympic Committee’s expert writing panel, identifying a syndrome of deleterious health and performance outcomes experienced by ...
    • Disordered eating and eating disorders in aquatic sports 

      Melin, Anna; Torstveit, Monica Klungland; Burke, Louise M.; Marks, Saul; Sundgot-Borgen, Jorunn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-08)
      Disordered eating behavior (DE) and eating disorders (EDs) are of great concern because of their associa- tions with physical and mental health risks and, in the case of athletes, impaired performance. The syndrome originally ...
    • Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs): a narrative review by a subgroup of the IOC consensus on REDs 

      Torstveit, Monica Klungland; Ackerman, Kathryn E.; Constantini, Naama; Holtzman, Bryan; Koehler, Karsten; Mountjoy, Margo L.; Sundgot-Borgen, Jorunn; Melin, Anna (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs) is common among female and male athletes representing various sports at different performance levels, and the underlying cause is problematic low energy availability (LEA). It is ...
    • The LEAF questionnaire: a screening tool for the identification of female athletes at risk for the female athlete triad 

      Melin, Anna; Tornberg, Åsa B.; Skouby, Sven; Faber, Jens; Ritz, Christian; Sjödin, Anders; Sundgot-Borgen, Jorunn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-02-21)
      BACKGROUND: Low energy availability (EA) in female athletes with or without an eating disorder (ED) increases the risk of oligomenorrhoea/functional hypothalamic amenorrhoea and impaired bone health, a syndrome ...
    • Within-day energy deficiency and reproductive function in female endurance athletes 

      Fahrenholtz, Ida Lysdahl; Sjödin, Anders; Benardot, Dan; Tornberg, Åsa; Skouby, Sven; Faber, Jens; Sundgot-Borgen, Jorunn; Melin, Anna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      We aimed to estimate and compare within-day energy balance (WDEB) in athletes with eumenorrhea and menstrual dysfunction (MD) with similar 24-hour energy availability/energy balance (EA/EB). Furthermore, to investigate ...