Anorexia - Epidemiology Forecast - 2032
DelveInsight's ‘Anorexia Nervosa (AN)- Epidemiology Forecast–2032' report delivers an in-depth understanding of AN, historical and forecasted epidemiology as well as AN trends in the United States, EU5 (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom) and Japan.
Anorexia Nervosa Disease Understanding
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder characterized by weight loss or lack of appropriate weight gain in growing children; difficulties maintaining an appropriate body weight for height, age, and stature; and, in many individuals, distorted body image. People with anorexia generally restrict the number of calories and the types of food they eat.
This disorder is characterized by deliberate weight loss, induced and sustained by the patient. It occurs most commonly in adolescent girls and young women, but adolescent boys and young men may also be affected, as many children approaching puberty and older women up to the menopause. The disorder is associated with specific psychopathology whereby a dread of fatness and flabbiness of body contour persists as an intrusive, overvalued idea, and the patients impose a low weight threshold on themselves. There is usually under nutrition of varying severity with secondary endocrine and metabolic changes and disturbances of bodily function.
Anorexia Nervosa Diagnosis
No objective test—such as bloodwork or an X-ray—can definitively point to an eating disorder. Instead, a doctor makes the diagnosis based on a person's symptoms. To diagnose anorexia, the doctor will ask about the person's symptoms, and they may also ask family members and other loved ones about their observations. If a doctor believes that a person has anorexia, they will attempt to diagnose the type. One type primarily involves restricting food intake, while another involves episodes of overeating and purging. If the person has experienced at least one of these episodes in the past 3 months, the doctor will likely diagnose binge eating and purging anorexia.
Diagnostic instruments in the form of questionnaires are used. Few of them are as follows:
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