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Anorexia nervosa – medical complications

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Mehler, Philip S, Brown, Carrie·2015·Journal of Eating Disorders
DOI 10.1186/s40337-015-0040-8
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In contrast to other mental health disorders, eating disorders have a high prevalence of concomitant medical complications. Specifically, patients suffering from anorexia nervosa (AN) have a litany of medical complications which are commonly present as part of their eating disorders. Almost every body system can be adversely, affected by this state of progressive malnutrition. Moreover, some of the complications can have permanent adverse effects even after there is a successful program of nutritional rehabilitation and weight restoration. Within this article we will review all body systems affected by AN. There is also salient information about both, how to diagnose these medical complications and which are the likely ones to result in permanent sequelae if not diagnosed and addressed early in the course of AN. In a subsequent article, the definitive medical treatment for these complications will be presented in a clinically practical manner.

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Authors
Mehler, P. S., & Brown, C.
Venue
Journal of Eating Disorders
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2015-03-31
Volume
3
Issue
1
Pages
11-11
ISSN
2050-2974 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1186/s40337-015-0040-8
OpenAlex
W2108143240
Cited by
301
References
4
FWCI
26.37
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
gold
Licence
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (unspecified)

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