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Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
This chapter describes the major eating disorders encountered during adolescence including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and eating disorders not otherwise specified (EDNOS). The latter group accounts for most adolescents seeking treatment for an eating disorder and refers to those patients not meeting full Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) crit...
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Childhood anxiety disorders may increase the likelihood of these disorders, although no clear cause has been identified for either illness. Women suffer from anorexia and bulimia more frequently than men do. The lifetime prevalence of anorexia varies from 0.3% to 1% for women; men are estimated to have one tenth of that prevalence. Bulimia is more common than anorexia, with a lifetime prevalenc...
متن کاملEating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia
E MERGING scientific evidence of the increasing prevalence of eating disorders, anorexia nervosa and bulimia in particular, necessitates that physicians be prepared both to diagnose and treat these disorders appropriately. Current estimates indicate that anorexia nervosa and bulimia affect 10% to 15% of adolescent girls and young women, and estimates of the prevalence of bulimia among college w...
متن کاملOlfactory dysfunction in anorexia and bulimia nervosa.
Fifty-five eating-disordered women and 16 normal controls participated in this study to determine whether olfactory function is altered in patients with food-restricting anorexia, anorexia with bulimic features, and bulimia nervosa. Olfactory function was assessed using the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test and by determining phenyl ethyl alcohol odor detection thresholds. On...
متن کاملNeurobiology of anorexia and bulimia nervosa.
Anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) are related disorders of unknown etiology that most commonly begin during adolescence in women. AN and BN have unique and puzzling symptoms, such as restricted eating or binge-purge behaviors, body image distortions, denial of emaciation, and resistance to treatment. These are often chronic and relapsing disorders, and AN has the highest death rate...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annual Review of Public Health
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0163-7525,1545-2093
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.pu.07.050186.002535