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Anorexia Nervosa: A disorder where a distorted sense of body image leads to self-starvation to the point of death in some cases. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Anorexia Nervosa is available below.
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Prognosis for Anorexia Nervosa: National Institute of Mental Health estimates that one in ten anorexic cases ends in death from starvation, suicide or medical complications like heart attacks or kidney failure. (Source: excerpt from Anorexia Nervosa: NWHIC)
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People who intentionally starve themselves or severely restrict their food intake suffer from an eating disorder called anorexia nervosa. The disorder, which usually begins in young people around the time of puberty, involves extreme weight loss -- at least 15 percent below a young woman’s normal body weight. (Source: excerpt from Anorexia Nervosa: NWHIC)
Syndrome in which the primary features include excessive fear of becoming overweight, body image disturbance, significant weight loss, refusal to maintain minimal normal weight, and amenorrhea. This disorder occurs most frequently in adolescent females. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 1994) - (Source - Diseases Database)
(psychiatry) a psychological disorder characterized by somatic delusions that you are too fat despite being emaciated - (Source - WordNet 2.1)
Anorexia Nervosa is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Anorexia Nervosa, or a subtype of Anorexia Nervosa,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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