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Descriptor English: Food Addiction
Descriptor Spanish: Adicción a la Comida
Descriptor adicción a la comida
Entry term(s) adicciones a la comida
alimentación compulsiva
comer compulsivamente
comer de forma compulsiva
Scope note: Conjunto de dependencias químicas a alimentos específicos o a la comida en general en que se desarrolla un ansia física por estos alimentos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Dependência de Alimentos
Descriptor French: Addiction à la nourriture
Entry term(s): Compulsive Eating
Eating, Compulsive
Food Addictions
Tree number(s): F01.145.527.100.120.500
F03.400.813
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000073932
Scope note: A cluster of chemical dependencies to specific foods or food in general in which there develops a physical craving for these foods.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Behavior, Addictive (2000-2017)
Public MeSH Note: 2018
History Note: 2018
Related: Pica MeSH
DeCS ID: 57220
Unique ID: D000073932
NLM Classification: WM 175
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2018/01/01
Date of Entry: 2017/07/11
Revision Date: 2017/02/28
Food Addiction - Preferred
Concept UI M000625014
Scope note A cluster of chemical dependencies to specific foods or food in general in which there develops a physical craving for these foods.
Preferred term Food Addiction
Entry term(s) Food Addictions
Compulsive Eating - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000626307
Preferred term Compulsive Eating
Entry term(s) Eating, Compulsive



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