Constitutional Thinness and Anorexia Nervosa: A Possible Misdiagnosis?
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Constitutional Thinness and Anorexia Nervosa: A Possible Misdiagnosis?
Clinical and biological aspects of restrictive anorexia nervosa (R-AN) are well documented. More than 10,000 articles since 1911 and more than 600 in 2013 have addressed R-AN psychiatric, somatic, and biological aspects. Genetic background, ineffectiveness of appetite regulating hormones on refeeding process, bone loss, and place of amenorrhea in the definition are widely discussed and reviewed...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Endocrinology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1664-2392
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2014.00175