Eating Disorders
Findings from University of Uppsala Advance Knowledge in Eating Disorders
Published in Mental Health Weekly Digest, May 23rd, 2011
2011 MAY 23 -- In this recent report published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, researchers in Uppsala, Sweden conducted a study "To study excess mortality, causes of death, and co-morbidity in patients with eating disorder (ED), treated in a Swedish specialist facility. A retrospective cohort study of 201 patients with ED followed from 1974 to year 2001 in the Swedish Causes of Death Register (SCODR)."
"Standardized mortality ratio (SMR) was calculated with respect to the Swedish population, by gender, age, and calendar time. In the complete follow-up of 201 patients, 23 had died. At a mean follow-up of 14.3 years the overall SMR...
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