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Anorexia Nervosa |
Eating Disorders, Anorexia |
For other uses, see Anorexia nervosa (disambiguation). Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder characterized by low body weight and body image distortion. Individuals with anorexia often control body weight by voluntary starvation, purging, vomiting, excessive exercise, or other weight control measures, such as diet pills or diuretic drugs. It primarily affects young adolescent girls in the Western world and has one of the highest mortality rates of ...
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Anorexia Nervosa Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry http://www.aacap.org/
- American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy http://www.aamft.org/
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill http://www.nami.org/
- American Diabetes Association http://www.diabetes.org/
- National Eating Disorders Association http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/p.asp?WebPage_ID=337
- National Women's Health Information Center, OWH, HHS http://www.4woman.gov/
- Office of Consumer Affairs, OEA, FDA,
- National Mental Health Information Center, SAMHSA, HHS http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/
- New York Online Access to Health, The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center (NOAH) http://www.noah-health.org
- Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases National Resource Center, NIAMS, NIH, HHS http://www.osteo.org/
- National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, HHS http://www.nimh.nih.gov/
- National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders http://www.anad.org/
- Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center http://www.edreferral.com
- MayoClinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/
- Cleveland Clinic http://www.clevelandclinic.org
- HealthWorld http://www.healthy.net/
- University of Maryland Medical Center http://www.umm.edu/
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