Anorexia nervosa: Dying to be thin; young patients who starve themselves risk bradycardia, anemia, bone loss--and even death.yet few patients receive proper care, experts say.(Interview)

Clinical Advisor | April 1, 2008| | Copyright

She's starving but not hungry and skeletally dim but says she feels fat. She talks about eating healthfully but may die of malnutrition--and she denies that anything is wrong. This is the portrait of the typical patient with anorexia nervosa, and she's likely to be among the most difficult patients a primary-care practitioner will ever encounter.This disease, most often seen in young Caucasian females, afflicts 1%-10% of American teenage girls and now seems to be spreading to other groups.

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