Features, Symptoms and Types of Anorexia Nervosa (1)

Features

• Onset often during adolescence or early adulthood
• Usually coincides with significant major life stressor
• 1-4% of females 0.2-0.3% of males
• Women in western cultures are 10x more likely to develop it
• 1:20 sufferers die, 1:5 commit suicide

Symptoms

Criterion A: restricted of food intake

• Deliberate weight loss so weight is below 17.5 less than 15 in extreme cases
• Weighing less than…