ArticleBMJ open sport & exercise medicine2020
Indicators and correlates of low energy availability in male and female dancers.
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- Suboptimal Caloric and Micronutrient Intakes in Female Student Athletes Across Several Division 1 Collegiate Sports.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Exploring different interventions for Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs): A systematic review.JSAMS plus · 2025Review
- Effect of a nutrition intervention on eating behaviours and body composition among elite adolescent ballet students.BMJ nutrition, prevention & health · 2025Article
- What Do We Know About the Energy Status and Diets of Pre-Professional and Professional Dancers: A Scoping Review.Nutrients · 2024Article
- 6-week time-restricted eating improves body composition, maintains exercise performance, without exacerbating eating disorder in female DanceSport dancers.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2024Article
- Multi-organ transcriptome atlas of a mouse model of relative energy deficiency in sport.Cell metabolism · 2024Article
- Assessment of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs) Risk among Adolescent Acrobatic Gymnasts.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Article
- Relative energy deficiency in dance (RED-D): a consensus method approach to REDs in dance.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2024Article
- Dietary intake, energy availability, and power in men collegiate gymnasts.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- Behind the Curtain: Prevalence of Symptoms of Depression, Generalised Anxiety and Eating Disorders in 147 Professional Dancers from Six Opera Houses or State Theatres.Sports medicine - open · 2023Article
- Prevalence of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) among National Athletes in Malaysia.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Investigating pre-professional dancer health status and preventative health knowledge.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- (Low) Energy Availability and Its Association with Injury Occurrence in Competitive Dance: Cross-Sectional Analysis in Female Dancers.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
- Passing on the exercise baton: What can endocrine patients learn from elite athletes?Clinical endocrinology · 2022Review
- Dietary Iron and the Elite Dancer.Nutrients · 2022Review
- Screening for Low Energy Availability in Male Athletes: Attempted Validation of LEAM-Q.Nutrients · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo investigate indicators and correlates of low energy availability (LEA) in male and female dancers.
methodsA Dance-Specific Energy Availability Questionnaire (DEAQ) was developed and administered online internationally to dancers training at preprofessional, professional or advanced amateur level. The DEAQ drew on current validated, published questionnaires for LEA, linked to the clinical outcomes of relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S). Questions addressed recognised physiological indicators and consequences of LEA in the context of dance, together with potential correlates. LEA was quantified using a scoring system to include these characteristics.
results247 responses to the DEAQ were analysed (225 female and 22 male), mean age 20.7 years (SD 7.9) with 85% practising ballet. Psychological, physiological and physical characteristics consistent with LEA were reported by 57% of the female dancers and 29% of male dancers, indicating a risk of RED-S. The unique nature of dance training, in terms of demands and environment, was found to be potentially influential in development of this situation. Less than one-third (29%) of dancers were aware of RED-S.
conclusionThis study found dancers to be a specific group of high-level artistic performers displaying indicators of LEA and consequently at risk of developing the adverse clinical health and performance consequences of RED-S. Awareness of RED-S was low. The DEAQ has the potential to raise awareness and be a practical, objective screening tool to identify dancers in LEA, at risk of developing RED-S.
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