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Body mass index and subjective well-being in young adults: a twin population study
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Mortality in eating disorders: A follow-up study of adult eating disorder patients treated in tertiary care, 1995-2010
Epidemiology and course of anorexia nervosa in the community
Objective: Most previous studies of the prevalence, incidence, and outcome of anorexia nervosa have been limited to cases detected through the health care system, which may bias our understanding of the disorder's incidence and natural course. The authors sought to describe the onset and outcomes of anorexia nervosa in the general population. Method: Lifetime prevalences, incidence rates, and 5-year recovery rates of anorexia nervosa were calculated on the basis of data from 2,881 women from the 1975-1979 birth cohorts of Finnish twins. Women who screened positive for eating disorder symptoms (N=292), their screennegative female co-twins (N=134), and 210 randomly selected screen-negative women were assessed for lifetime eating disorders by telephone by experienced clinicians. To assess outcomes after clinical recovery and to detect residua of illness, women who had recovered were compared with their unaffected co-twins and healthy unrelated women on multiple outcome measures. Results: The lifetime prevalence of DSM-IV anorexia nervosa was 2.2%, and half of the cases hail not been detected in the health care system. The incidence of anorexia nervosa in women between 15 and 19 years of age was 270 per 100,000 person-years. The 5-year clinical recovery rate was 66.8%. Outcomes did not differ between detected and undetected cases. After clinical recovery, the residua of illness steadily receded. By 5 years after clinical recovery, most probands had reached complete or nearly complete psychological recovery and closely resembled their unaffected co-twins and healthy women in weight and most psychological and social measures. Conclusions: The authors found a substantially higher lifetime prevalence and incidence of anorexia nervosa than reported in previous studies, most of which were based on treated cases. Most women recovered clinically within 5 years, and thereafter usually progressed toward full recovery
Autoimmune disease status per each individual autoimmune disease included in the study at the end of the study period (covering the time before, during and after the treatment) for a composite of all patients with eating disorder compared with their control individuals.
<p>Odds Ratios (OR) are presented if meaningful analyses were possible.</p
Period prevalences and results from conditional logistic regression models of autoimmune diseases from the start of the study period until the beginning of the treatment of an eating disorder.
<p>For the seven separate autoimmune disease categories presented, each participant counts as maximum one observation per category. For the total figure of any autoimmune disease, each participant is presented as maximum one observation. Out of all patients and all controls, there was only one patient participant (with bulimia nervosa) with pulmonary disease (not shown). CI, Confidence Interval; OR, Odds ratio.</p