A new Australian study finds that 31 percent of adolescents hospitalized for anorexia nervosa exhibit all the cognitive and physical complications of the disease without being underweight.
Dietitian Melissa Whitelaw at the University of Melbourne is calling for a change to the diagnostic criteria for the disorder after finding that patients with “atypical anorexia” suffer serious health concerns despite being within or even above the healthy weight range.
“What we are seeing now is...
[Read More ...]
No comments:
Post a Comment