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abstractBehavioural eating disorders are common in Western societies, in both their forms: anorexia and bulimia nervosa. The family doctor plays a crucial role in the diagnostic and therapeutic process.
In Italy, the prevalence of eating disorders in the groups at risk (adolescents and young adults, female in 90% of cases) is 0.2-1.3 percent for anorexia, with two peaks of greater frequency at the ages of 14 and 18; while for bulimia it is from 1 to 3 percent, with a peak at around 17 years old. In fact, a group of Austrian researchers found that these disorders were also present at a much older age, with a prevalence of 3.8 percent found in a sample of almost 500 women aged between 60 and 70. This underlines the need to include this possibility when making a differential diagnosis of situations of weight loss, vomiting and excessive interest in one’s own weight, even at an older age. |
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