Eating disorders among American teens are common and associated with other psychological disorders, including risk of suicide, according to a new study.
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Eating disorders were most strongly associated with social impairment, according to the national Institute of Mental Health researchers.
Almost 89 percent of the study’s participants, which included face-to-face interviews with adolescents ages 13 to 18 years old, reported social impairment.
Almost 20 percent reported severe social impairment associated with their eating disorders.
Lifetime suicide risk was associated with all subtypes of eating disorders studied, which included anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder and subthreshold eating disorders.
The NIH researchers also said that although a majority of adolescents with eating disorders sought some sort of treatment, only a minority received treatment specifically for their respective conditions.
A report on the study appears this week in the online edition of the Archives of General Psychiatry and will appear in the July print edition.
Read more: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/briefs/articles/90038935?Eating%20disorders%20prevalent%20among%20U.S.%20teens#ixzz1G6eNBSn9
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