Anorexia Nervosa - Epidemiology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Reproduction and offspring status 18 years after teenage-onset anorexia nervosa--a controlled community-based study.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: To study reproduction in a representative group of anorexia nervosa (AN) cases. METHOD: Fifty-one adolescent-onset AN cases (48 women; three men), originally recruited after community screening, and 51 matched comparison cases (COMP) were ... Read more...

Health care utilization in patients with eating disorders.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: To examine health care costs among patients with eating disorders (EDs) using the Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota claims database system. METHOD: Four groups of individuals enrolled between 1999 and 2005 were identified: (1) a ... Read more...

An 8-year longitudinal study of the natural history of threshold, subthreshold, and partial eating disorders from a community sample of adolescents.

30 Jul 2009 The authors examined the natural history of threshold, subthreshold, and partial eating disorders in a community sample of 496 adolescent girls who completed annual diagnostic interviews over an 8-year period. Lifetime prevalence by age 20 years was ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Anorexia Nervosa - Epidemiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Reproduction and offspring status 18 years after teenage-onset anorexia nervosa--a controlled community-based study. 30 Aug 2009
• Health care utilization in patients with eating disorders. 30 Aug 2009
• Re-feeding-induced hypomania in an anorexia nervosa patient with hyperthyroidism. 30 Aug 2009
• An 8-year longitudinal study of the natural history of threshold, subthreshold, and partial eating disorders from a community sample of adolescents. 30 Jul 2009
• Meta-analysis on drugs in people with eating disorders. 29 Jun 2009
• Meal support therapy reduces the use of nasogastric feeding for adolescents hospitalized with anorexia nervosa. 29 Jun 2009
• Attitudes toward weight gain during pregnancy: results from the Norwegian mother and child cohort study (MoBa). 29 Jun 2009
• Gender differences in axis I and axis II comorbidity in patients with borderline personality disorder. 10 Jun 2009
• Adolescent-onset anorexia nervosa - missing half of the story? 30 May 2009
• Migraine prevalence in eating disorders and pathophysiological correlations. 29 Apr 2009
• [Sleep-wake cycle among adolescents who suffer from eating disorders: original Israeli research studies] 29 Apr 2009
• The prevalence, incidence and development of eating disorders in Finnish adolescents: a two-step 3-year follow-up study. 29 Apr 2009
• Viewership of pro-anorexia websites in seventh, ninth and eleventh graders. 29 Apr 2009
• An integrative quantitative model of factors influencing the course of anorexia nervosa over time. 29 Apr 2009
• Attention-deficit hyperactivity symptoms and disorder in eating disorder inpatients. 29 Apr 2009
• Neural correlates of impaired cognitive-behavioral flexibility in anorexia nervosa. 15 Feb 2009
• Epidemiology of anorexia nervosa in men: a nationwide study of Finnish twins. 8 Feb 2009
• Adolescent-onset anorexia nervosa: 18-year outcome. 30 Jan 2009
• [The first epidemiologic survey among Hungarian elite athletes: eating disorders, depression and risk factors] 2 Jan 2009
• [Prevalence of eating disorders in Romanian, Hungarian and Saxon secondary school students in Transylvania] 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Anorexia Nervosa'

Definition: An eating disorder that is characterized by the lack or loss of APPETITE, known as ANOREXIA. Other features include excess fear of becoming OVERWEIGHT; BODY IMAGE disturbance; significant WEIGHT LOSS; refusal to maintain minimal normal weight; and AMENORRHEA. This disorder occurs most frequently in adolescent females. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 1994)

Descriptor UI: D000856

Alternative terms: Anorexia Nervosa; Anorexia Nervosas; Nervosa, Anorexia; Nervosas, Anorexia;

Related Mesh Headings: Anorexia;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.375.100;

Technical Notes: ANOREXIA is also available