Atypical presentation of Anorexia Nervosa
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Anorexia Nervosa is a eating disorder characterised by immoderate restriction, inappropriate eating habits, or obsession with having rituals or thin figure and an irrelevant of weight gain. Its prevalence is about 10:1 in female: male ratio. Anorexia nervosa is of 2 types. (1)Restrictive type-individuals restricting food intake, fasting, diet pills and/or exercise for losing weight.(2)BING eating/purging:-individuals utilizes binge eating or displays purging behaviour as a mean for losing weight. Anorexia nervosa diagnosed on the basis of DSM-5 criteria. Anorexia nervosa presented as medical problems. we have a 19 year old male patient presented with medical problems later diagnosed as anorexia nervosaDownloads
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2014-09-30
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Atypical presentation of Anorexia Nervosa. Int Jour of Biomed Res [Internet]. 2014 Sep. 30 [cited 2025 Mar. 12];5(9):593-5. Available from: https://ssjournals.co.in/index.php/ijbr/article/view/1080