[Distribution and relation of risk factors associated with eating disorders in a sample of pubescents, males and females, to 11-15 years old from Hidalgo, Mexico].

Objective: To determine the distribution and relation of risk factors: biological (body mass index (BMI), sexual maturity) psychological (eating behaviours, body unsatisfied), and sociocultural (publicity influence and distress with body shape) factors associated to eating disorders in Mexican pubescent from Hidalgo, Mexico.

Material And Methods: A field transversal descriptive and correlational design was carried away with a probabilistic sample of 2194 pubescent (males 48%; females 52%), between 11 and 15 years (X = 13.2; DE = 1.