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Eating disorders cause substantial morbidity and mortality in children, adolescents, and adults.

Individuals with AN refuse to keep a minimally normal body weight. They fear gaining weight and have a severely disturbed perception of their body shape or size. Postmenarcheal females with AN are amenorrheic. Persons with the disorder maintain a body weight that is below minimally normal standards for age and height. Children and younger adolescents who develop AN may fail to reach expected weight gains and therefore may not lose weight. Persons with the condition can be classified as having a restricting type, e.g., the persons lose weight by dieting, fasting, or excessive exercise, or binge eating (BE)/purging type, e.g., the individual regularly participates in BE or purging or both.

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Goldstein, M.L., Morewitz, S. (2011). Eating Disorders. In: Chronic Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9764-7_9

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