Earlier diagnosis in anorexia nervosa: better watch growth charts!
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Quetelet index in diagnosis of anorexia nervosa.
The criteria for diagnosing anorexia nervosa vary between authorities,1-3 but a considerable loss of weight or a low body weight is considered an important diagnostic criterion. The body weight criterion for anorexia nervosa is stated, in the absence of any physical or psychological illness, to be a loss of body weight of at least 25% of the original body weight or the weight is less than 80% o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Eating Disorders
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2050-2974
DOI: 10.1186/s40337-020-00321-4