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Anorexia Nervosa in Patients of Afro-Caribbean Extraction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Joseph P. Thomas  and
George I. Szmukler
Joseph P. Thomas*
Affiliation:
Maudsley Hospital, London
George I. Szmukler
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF
*
∗Correspondence.
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Summary

Recently there has been an increase in the number of reports of anorexia nervosa in non-Caucasian subjects. This paper describes three patients of Afro-Caribbean extraction with anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia nervosa seen at a specialist eating disorders clinic at the Maudsley Hospital between 1981 and 1983. No cases had been seen prior to this. The key clinical features were found to be, in the main, typical.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 146 , Issue 6 , June 1985 , pp. 653 - 656
Copyright
Copyright © 1985 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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