childhood infections and teen eating disorders
Adolescent girls who have childhood infections may be an increased risk of developing eating disorders later (see eating disorders early infections jamapsych2019 in dropbox, or doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.0297 ). Details: -- the entire female population born in Denmark between 1989-2006 were included in the study and linked with the Danish Psychiatric Central Research Register, which contains all admissions to psychiatric inpatient facilities since 1968 and outpatient information since 1995 (access to this type of information is one of the advantages of universal healthcare with equal care for all, combined with an organized national registry) -- 525,643 adolescent girls, of whom 2131 received a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa (AN, median age 15), 711 a diagnosis of bulimia nervosa (BN, median age 18), 1398 received a diagnosis of eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS, median age 16). 4,601,720 perso...