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Eating Disorders in High School.
Nearly one-third of girls who participated in the first-ever nationwide survey of eating disorders among high school students had significant eating disorder symptoms.
Of those, almost none had received treatment, S. Bryn Austin, Sc.D., reported at the annual meeting of the Society for Adolescent Medicine.
"These students are engaging in eating disorder behaviors that can have harmful effects on their bodies and psychologically. They need help," said Dr. Austin of Children's Hospital, Boston.
There was a strong association between vomiting frequency and menstrual cycle irregularity in normal-weight girls. Girls who reported vomiting occasionally were nearly twice as likely to have infrequent menses, and girls who reported frequent vomiting were 5.5 times as likely to have infrequent menses.
This survey of 35,000 students from 152 high schools in 30 states was conducted in the spring of 2000 by the National Eating Disorders Screening Program, a project of Screening for Mental Health Inc., a nonprofit group based ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Eating Disorders in High School.