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Anorexia and the Adolescent

Journal of School Health, 1983
ABSTRACTAnorexia nervosa or self‐starvation is a disease that can lead to lifelong problems or death. A problem primarily affecting young women, anorexia is occurring at a rapidly increasing rate in the United States. In today's society, thinness is perpetuated in all aspects of life; the result of this initial dieting in combination with a low self ...
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Anorexia in the elderly

Neurobiology of Aging, 1988
Weight loss and anorexia occur commonly in the elderly. While in many cases the anorexia can be attributed to associated disease processes, it does appear that a true anorexia of aging exists. Animal studies have suggested that older rodents have an excessive satiety effect of cholecystokinin and a decreased opioid feeding drive.
J E, Morley, A J, Silver
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Pathophysiology of anorexia

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2002
A physiologic decline in food intake occurs with advancing age. The physiologic anorexia of aging and its associated weight loss predispose older persons to develop protein-energy malnutrition. In older persons a variety of social and psychologic factors, diseases, and medications can aggravate the physiologic anorexia and lead to severe weight loss ...
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Anorexia athletica

Nutrition, 2004
In many sports, athletes with low body weight have a distinct advantage over their opponents; however, this advantage can easily turn into a noticeable disadvantage because low body weight may also be associated with health problems. The present review focuses on the problem of anorexia athletica, with its emphasis on leanness and thinness in female ...
Karl, Sudi   +5 more
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The anorexia of ageing

Biogerontology, 2002
Ageing is associated with a reduction in appetite and food intake, which has been termed the 'anorexia of ageing'. After age 70-75 years average body weight decreases, even in healthy people, disproportionately due to loss of lean tissue. The 'physiological' anorexia and weight loss of ageing predispose to pathological weight loss and malnutrition ...
Chapman, I.   +3 more
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The Anorexia of Aging

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2006
Undernutrition is common in the elderly, particularly those in nursing homes and other institutions. It is associated with substantial adverse effects. The age-associated physiologic reduction in appetite and food intake, which has been termed "the anorexia of aging," contributes to the development of pathologic anorexia and undernutrition.
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[Anorexia nervosa and "anorexia athletica"].

Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946), 1998
Available evidence supports the assumption that stressors in vulnerable adolescence potentially lead to restrictive dieting and imbalances of serotonergic metabolic particularly in females. In conjunction with idealized body images and developmentally characteristic bodily perceptions prone to distortion pathogenetic mechanisms of eating disorders are ...
K J, Neumärker, A J, Bartsch
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The treatment of anorexia

The Journal of Pediatrics, 1958
Summary Anorexia in infancy and childhood is a widespread complaint, particularly to general practitioners and pediatricians. It consists essentially in poor appetite in an otherwise healthy child, often with revulsion for specific foods and accompanied by gastrointestinal autonomic dysfunction, and is brought about by the efforts of the parents or ...
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Anorexia Nervosa

New England Journal of Medicine, 2020
James E, Mitchell, Carol B, Peterson
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A systematic review comparing atypical anorexia nervosa and anorexia nervosa

International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2023
Kelsey Hagan, Tim Walsh
exaly  

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