Your Time in the Womb Matters: Risk Factors for Anorexia Nervosa
Originally published at Science of Eating Disorders. Please leave any comments there.
A not-so-recent, but interesting paper by Cynthia Bulik and colleagues outlines an interesting model for perinatal risk factors in the development of anorexia nervosa. The model ”focuses on adverse perinatal events and prematurity as risk factors for AN and encompasses the potential role of passive gene-environment correlation in perpetuating AN risk.” Importantly, this model “provides intriguing data on [...]