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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 (MayoClinic)
- Anorexia Nervosa (Cleveland Clinic)
- Anorexia Nervosa (Cleveland Clinic)
- Anorexia Nervosa (HealthWorld)
- Anorexia Nervosa (University of Maryland Medical Center)
- Anorexia Nervosa (National Women's Health Information Center)
- Anorexia Nervosa (National Eating Disorders Association)
- Anorexia Nervosa (American Academy of Family Physicians)
- Anorexia Nervosa (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill)
- Anorexia Nervosa (Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center)
- Anorexia [Easy-to-Read] (National Women's Health Information Center, OWH, HHS)
- Ask NOAH About: Anorexia Nervosa Fact Sheet (New York Online Access to Health, The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center (NOAH))
- Bodywise Handbook - Eating Disorders Information for Middle School Personnel (National Women's Health Information Center, OWH, HHS)
- Centers of Excellence - Eating Disorders (National Women's Health Information Center, OWH, HHS)
- Eating Disorders (American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy)
- Eating Disorders (Cleveland Clinic)
- Eating Disorders (National Mental Health Information Center, SAMHSA, HHS)
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- Eating Disorders Definitions (National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders)
- Eating Disorders in Teens and Pre-Teens (Cleveland Clinic)
- Eating Disorders: Facts about Eating Disorders and the Search for Solutions (National Institute of Mental Health)
- How to Pay For Mental Health Services (National Mental Health Information Center, SAMHSA, HHS)
- Medical Management and Prognosis of Eating Disorders (American Diabetes Association)
- On the Teen Scene: Eating Disorders Require Medical Attention (Office of Consumer Affairs, OEA, FDA,)
- Skeletal Effects of Anorexia (National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)
- Teenagers With Eating Disorders (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
- What People with Anorexia Nervosa Need to Know about Osteoporosis (National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)
- Women''s Health: Eating Disorders (Anorexia & Bulimia) (HealthWorld)
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