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Suspect eating disorder in teens with amenorrhea. (Check Vital Signs).
SEA ISLAND, GA. -- Eating disorders should top the diagnostic list whenever a teenage girl presents with amenorrhea.
Alterations in diet can have "unbelievable" impact on the adolescent menstrual cycle, Dr. Ann J. Davis said at an ob.gyn. meeting sponsored by the Medical College of Georgia.
In a study of 13 young women who ovulated normally and were placed on an 800-calorie vegetarian diet, 7 became anovulatory within only one cycle, she said.
Every adolescent patient with a menstrual disorder, therefore, should be checked for height and weight as well as pulse, blood pressure, temperature, and cardiac rhythm. "If you just do those things, you'll catch the majority of those who are going to die before they get to another physician," Dr. Davis said.
Anorexia nervosa is associated with a 5% mortality and is the third most common chronic disease in female adolescents with a prevalence of 0.5%-1%.
The onset of anorexia in patients has tended historically to be bimodal, either in the early or late teens, "but we've started seeing it in ...
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...the nation's leading eating disorder treatment center, reports...the cause of their child's eating disorder. They are not. Many factors...contribute to the development of an eating disorder, such as peer pressure, perfectionism...
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...the memory as one of several early "eating disorder acts" he now knows were coping strategies...various stages of suffering with binge eating disorder," he says. "I knew something was...health professionals, says binge eating disorder is marked by frequent uncontrollable...
- Weighing Alli's impact: eating disorder patients might be tempted to abuse the...
- Magazine article from: Behavioral Healthcare Cumella, Edward J. Hahn, Judy Woods, Brenda K. June 1, 2007 700+ words
...Between 28% (1) and 64% (2) of eating disorder outpatients might use such products...percentages of adult and adolescent eating disorder patients who abuse OTC products are similar. Eating disorder patients continue to use such products...
- The matrix of eating disorder vulnerability: oral history and the link between...
- Magazine article from: The Oral History Review Leavy, Patricia Ross, Lauren Sardi January 1, 2006 700+ words
...factors that influenced Claire's eating disorder, the authors personalize "the matrix of eating disorder vulnerability" through one woman...battle with a life-threatening eating disorder, a story that literature had previously...
- An Eating Disorder Is Not a Diet, It's a Disease; Remuda Ranch, Nation's...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 11, 2005 700+ words
...diet crosses the line and becomes an eating disorder? Remuda Ranch, Programs for Anorexia...believes there are several signs that an eating disorder is present and the person's behavior...loved one to know the signs of an eating disorder," said Juliet Zuercher, registered...
- Adolescents With Eating Disorder Probably Don't Harm Fertility.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Family Practice News Brunk, Doug May 1, 2000 700+ words
...fertility for adolescents who have an eating disorder looks good, judging from the findings...treated at Stanford University for an eating disorder in adolescence between 1979 and 1989...including symptoms and resolution of their eating disorder, menstrual history, and sexual and...
- Potential stressors contributing to eating disorder symptoms in African...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Mental Health Counseling Talleyrand, Regine M. October 1, 2006 700+ words
...American women, few counseling models of eating disorder symptomatology have included the socialization...unique stressors that may contribute to eating disorder symptoms in African American women...as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder are considered major health ...
