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Let’s take a look at a paper on eating disorders. Anorexia can be extremely difficult to treat and potentially fatal. Bulimia can have a significant impact on the quality of life both for the patient and family members. So, let’s look at a population-based study from The British Journal of Psychiatry that examined the early trajectory of eating disorders. There is an interesting longitudinal study called the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, the ALSPAC, that studied 14,000 children from birth. That is 14,000 children who were born in 1991 or 1992 in Southwest England. The authors, a group here led by Dr. Nadia Micali, had previously shown that weight in early childhood, looking at this ALSPAC group, veered away from normal growth curves in children who later developed eating disorders toward lower BMI and those who later developed anorexia. Furthermore, the divergence occurs very early, at an average
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