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Med Sur 2015; 22 (3)

Anorexia nervosa: a review

Ibarzábal-Ávila MEA, Hernández-Martínez JA, Luna-Domínguez D, Vélez-Escalante JE, Delgadillo-Díaz M, Manassero-Baeza V, Bernal-Espinoza E, González-Macías L, Ortiz-Fernández AG, Moguel-Gloria A, Córdova-Esquivel AL, Ramos-Ostos MH

Language: Spanish
References: 21
Page: 112-117
PDF size: 115.04 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Anorexia nervosa is an specific eating disorder. This article presents the general considerations of anorexia nervosa with a focus on a multifactorial origin and a multidisciplinary approach. Usually anorexia nervosa appears in early adolescence, being more frequentamong women, its course tends to chronicity and coexists with high medical and psychiatric comorbidity. Anorexia nervosa has the highest rate of mortality amongst the psychiatric disorders. The creation of knowledge in this area is needed in order for doctors and staff in the health sector to consider anorexia nervosa as a mental illness unlikely to have a spontaneous remission. Anorexia nervosa can likewise affect adult individuals who started with this disorder in the adolescence.


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