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How Common Are Eating Disorders? Incidence, Prevalence and Mortality Rates

vnc_00 Oct 10, 2012 11:21

Originally published at Science of Eating Disorders. Please leave any comments there.

Six month of blogging and I have yet to do a proper post on the prevalence of eating disorders. I think it is about time. I see all sorts of numbers thrown around, often depending on the purpose of the article and the author’s bias. Is it 1 in 1000, 1 in 100, 1 in ( Read more... )

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EDNOS, Bulimia Nervosa: As Deadly as Anorexia in Outpatients

vnc_00 May 08, 2012 15:57

Originally published at Science of Eating Disorders. Please leave any comments there.

Eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS), the catch-all diagnosis for eating disorder patients that don’t neatly fit into the DSM-IV anorexia nervosa (AN) or bulimia nervosa (BN) categories, is often thought to be less severe. Patients with sub-threshold AN ( Read more... )

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A Meta-Analysis of Mortality in Eating Disorders

vnc_00 May 04, 2012 03:06

Originally published at Science of Eating Disorders. Please leave any comments there.

You often hear that anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness, but you might struggle to find the rates for bulimia nervosa or EDNOS. Even for AN, the most common cause of death is rarely reported and the reported rates often vary a ( Read more... )

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