Boys With Eating Disorders Carry Higher Psychiatric Load
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Adolescent boys with eating disorders carry a higher psychiatric load, particularly depression, and present for treatment later than their female counterparts, new research suggests. Eating disorders are the third most common chronic illness in adolescent girls, and in recent years, increased attention has been paid to eating disorders in adolescent boys
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@roopendra From previous research, we know that higher comorbidity in general, such as higher risk for depression, is associated with more severe eating disorder. Previous studies also suggest that males with eating disorders have more somatic and psychiatric comorbidities than females with eating disorders. It might be that only those males with more severe eating disorders are detected in the clinical setting, while males with milder symptoms simply go unnoticed,