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Eating disorders

Medicine, 1989
Covid had a profound impact on services for eating disorders because of the huge increase in demand. Nevertheless, services quickly adopted a virtual form of working. This rapid change in prevalence was attributed to a number of factors, including a general increase in fear and fragmented social functioning, with a specific accentuation of higher risk ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Setting policy priorities to address eating disorders and weight stigma: views from the field of eating disorders and the US general public [PDF]

, 2014
Background: The prevalence and health consequences of eating disorders and weight stigmatization have prompted increasing discussion of potential policy actions to address these public health issues.
Austin, S Bryn, King, Kelly M, Luedicke, Joerg, Neumark-Sztainer, Dianne, Puhl, Rebecca M   +4 more
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Alcohol‐induced altered glycans in human tracheal epithelial cells promote bacterial adhesion

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Alcohol induces altered glycans to promote bacteria adhesion. Heavy alcohol drinking is known to increase the risk of bacterial pneumonia. However, the link between alcohol levels and risk of infection remains underexplored. Recently, we found that alcohol induced α2‐6sialo mucin O‐glycans in human tracheobronchial epithelial cells, which mediated the ...
Pi‐Wan Cheng, Souvik Datta, Derrick R. Samuelson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Peer mentoring for eating disorders: evaluation of a pilot program

Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2018
Background Eating disorders are serious psychiatric illnesses that are often associated with poor quality of life and low long-term recovery rates. Peer mentor programs have been found to improve psychiatric symptoms and quality of life in other mental ...
Jennifer Beveridge, Andrea Phillipou, Kelly Edwards, Alice Hobday, Krissy Hilton, Cathy Wyett, Anna Saw, Georgia Graham, David Castle, Leah Brennan, Philippa Harrison, Rebecca de Gier, Narelle Warren, Freya Hanly, Benjamin Torrens-Witherow, J. Richard Newton, Steering group committee   +16 more
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Personality characteristics and medical impact of stimulant laxative abuse in eating disorder patients—a pilot study

Journal of Eating Disorders, 2021
Background Stimulant laxative abuse as a purging behavior can be profound in those with eating disorders. However, the psychopathology leading to stimulant laxative abuse is poorly understood.
Dennis Gibson, Jodie Benabe, Ashlie Watters, Judy Oakes, Philip S. Mehler   +4 more
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Erythropoietin modulates hepatic inflammation, glucose homeostasis, and soluble epoxide hydrolase and epoxides in high‐fat diet‐induced obese mice

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Erythropoietin administration suppresses hepatic soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) expression, leading to increased CYP‐derived epoxides. This is associated with a shift in hepatic macrophage polarization characterized by reduced M1 markers and increased M2 markers, along with reduced hepatic inflammation, suppressed hepatic lipogenesis, and attenuated ...
Takeshi Goda, Satoru Sugimoto, Chiharu Cho, Madoka Konishi, Nozomi Inoue, Satoshi Miyagaki, Yasuhiro Kawabe, Takuro Okamura, Masahide Hamaguchi, Hisakazu Nakajima, Michiaki Fukui, Masakazu Shinohara, Tomoko Iehara   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Models of care for eating disorders: findings from a rapid review

Journal of Eating Disorders, 2022
Background Delayed diagnosis, gaps in services and subsequent delays in specialist care and treatment lead to poorer health outcomes for individuals with eating disorders (EDs) and drive significant government healthcare expenditure.
Melissa J. Pehlivan, Jane Miskovic-Wheatley, Anvi Le, Danielle Maloney, National Eating Disorders Research Consortium, Stephen Touyz, Sarah Maguire   +6 more
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Family profiles in eating disorders: family functioning and psychopathology [PDF]

, 2017
Research has studied family functioning in families of patients suffering from eating disorders (EDs), particularly investigating the associations between mothers’ and daughters’ psychopathological symptoms, but limited studies have examined whether ...
Ballarotto, Giulia, Bracaglia, Fabrizia, Cerniglia, Luca, Cimino, Silvia, Marzilli, Eleonora, Tafà, Mimma   +5 more
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Screening and epitope characterization of Nidogen‐2‐specific nanobodies

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Camel immunization and phage display were employed to generate high‐affinity VHH nanobodies against Nidogen‐2. After library construction, biopanning, ELISA screening, sequencing, and recombinant expression, selected nanobodies were purified and characterized, leading to the preliminary exploration of a nanobody‐based sandwich ELISA for specific ...
Jianchuan Wen, Qianqian Cui, Zhongyun Lan, Yingjun Wang, Shuaiying Zhao, Wenxuan Feng, Yunfeng Liu, Qiting Huang, Dongna Zhang, Jianfeng Xu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Moving online: young people and parents’ experiences of adolescent eating disorder day programme treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic

Journal of Eating Disorders, 2021
Plain English summary This study examined the experiences of young people and their parents who attended an intensive day treatment programme for anorexia online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Online questionnaires were completed by 14 patients aged 12–18 
Phillipa Louise Brothwood, Julian Baudinet, Catherine S. Stewart, Mima Simic   +3 more
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