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The Medical Complications of Anorexia Nervosa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

C. W. Sharp  and
C. P. L. Freeman
C. W. Sharp*
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh, Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF
C. P. L. Freeman
Affiliation:
Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

The physical complications of anorexia nervosa are common and can be life threatening, but psychiatrists and the increasing number of non-medical therapists involved in treatment programmes often overlook these complications. Cardiovascular complications are the most common, and the most likely to result in fatalities, particularly in those patients who vomit, purge or abuse diuretics, because of the electrolyte abnormalities induced. Osteoporosis is an early and perhaps irreversible consequence of severe weight loss. Further, there are dangers in rapid intravenous hyperalimentation.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 162 , Issue 4 , April 1993 , pp. 452 - 462
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1993 

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