Eating disorders can affect a small portion of U.S. young people but for those who reveals a study afflicted are devastating.
Young people with eating disorders are vulnerable to at least other psychiatric disorder, seriously to consider or attempt suicide, and have published online March 7 in archives of General Psychiatry a social impairment as a result of their condition, according to the study.
Although most teenagers seek psychiatric treatment, are actually only a few help to their eating problems, Kathleen Merikangas, PhD, the study said co-author and senior researcher and head of genetic epidemiology at the National Institute of mental health's Division of intramural research programs.
"The message for professionals, if someone your attention and you determine that they are underweight or overweight, screen for eating disorders," she said.
The age of 13 to 18 of 0.3% had anorexia nervosa researchers analyzed data on Tiegenhof, 0.9% had such as bulimia nervosa and 1.6% had a binge-eating disorder.
Researchers found that 77.6% of teens with anorexia and bulimia 88.2% help had received mental health but only 26.5% to 21.5%, respectively, help with their weight or food problems. Teens with subthreshold eating disorders like anorexia of subthreshold and subthreshold binge-eating disorder, which show worrying behaviour but qualify as a disorder, were even less likely that a member of the health care professionals, discuss Merikangas said her eating difficulties.
Young people can avoid the issue because they are in denial about their eating disorder, they feel shame or stigma or professional failed their condition recognize the health, she said.
Most teenagers with eating disorders met also criteria for at least another psychiatric disorder. For example, teens with anorexia were oppositional defiant disorder associated with, and that were associated with mood and anxiety disorders with bulimia. Start eating disorders of tend to age between 10 and 14, the study said.
Helping at an early stage to catch such errors, doctors can save patients lives, Merikangas said. "Eating disorders are associated with increased of mortality." "The medical complications of these disorders are very high."
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