Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center

Details about researcher: Jorunn Sundgot-Borgen

CV

Jorunn Sundgot-Borgen is currently working as a professor in physical activity and health at The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.

Since 1995 she was a consultant at The Norwegian Olympic Training center and acted as Head of the Nutrition department for the last 5 years.

Jorunn is one of the leading researchers in the field of eating disorders, nutrition and osteoporosis in sports in general and in female athletes in particular. She has coauthored the International Olympic Committee Medical Commission Position Stand on the Female Athlete Triad.

In her athletic career, she used to be a member of the Norwegian national team in gymnastics and rhythmical gymnastics.

Projects

• Prevalence of eating disorders among adolescent elite athletes

  Project manager: Marianne Martinsen

• Dieting and disordered eating among adolescent elite athletes and non-athlete controls

  Project manager: Marianne Martinsen

• Sport, health, body, and achievement

  Project manager: Marianne Martinsen

Publications

• 2015

  • Coaches’ knowledge and management of eating disorders: a randomized controlled trial

    Martinsen, Marianne; Sherman, Roberta A; Thompson, Ron A; Sundgot-Borgen, Jorunn

    Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 2015:47(5):1070–1078

• 2014

  • The IOC consensus statement: beyond the Female Athlete Triad—Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S)

    Mountjoy, M; Sundgot-Borgen, J; Burke, L; Carter, S; Constantini, N; Lebrun, C; Meyer, N; Sherman, R; Steffen, K; Budget, R; Ljungqvist, A

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2014;48:7:491-497.

  • Preventing eating disorders among young elite athletes: a randomized controlled trial

    Martinsen, Marianne; Bahr, Roald; Børresen, Runi; Holme, Ingar; Pensgaard, Anne Marte; Sundgot-Borgen, Jorunn

    Medical and Science in Sport and Exercise 2014:46(3):435-447

  • The development of the Brief Eating Disorder in Athletes Questionnaire

    Martinsen, Marianne; Holme, Ingar; Pensgaard, Anne Marte; Torstveit, Monica Klungland; Sundgot-Borgen, Jorunn

    Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 2014:46(8):1666–1675

• 2013

  • Higher prevalence of eating disorders among adolescent elite athletes than controls

    Martinsen, Marianne; Sundgot-Borgen, Jorunn

    Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 2013:45(6):1188-1197

• 2012

  • Adolescent elite athletes’ cigarette smoking, use of snus, and alcohol

    Martinsen, Marianne; Sundgot-Borgen, Jorunn

    Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports 2014:24(2):439-446

• 2010

  • Dieting to win or to be thin? A study of dieting and disordered eating among adolescent elite athletes and non-athlete controls

    Martinsen, Marianne; Bratland-Sanda, Solfrid; Eriksson, Audun; Sundgot-Borgen, Jorunn

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2010:44(1):70-76