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Eating Disorders
Systematic treatment yields good outcome of adolescent-onset anorexia
January 6th, 2005
A study from Norway reports that cooperative systematic treatment had good outcome in cases of adolescent-onset anorexia nervosa. I. Halvorsen and colleagues, Buskerud Hospital, Drammen, "studied the intermediate to long-term outcome of childhood and adolescent-onset anorexia nervosa (AN), in a sample that had received systematic treatment based on close cooperation between parents, [the hospital's] pediatric department, and child and adolescent psychiatry." At between 3.5 and 14.5 years after initiating treatment, 51 AN patients were examined. "The material includes all AN-patients under 18 years in one county that received...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-01-06)
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