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and little is known about the long-term outcome of anorexia nervosa, according to Sandra Rydberg Dobrescu and her co-workers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden (Br J Psychiatry.
2020.
216:97).
The group has provided a tremendously valuable report of the 30-year outcome of people who had AN as adolescents.
The researchers started with a group of 4291 individuals born in 1970 who were eighth-graders in 1985 in Gothenburg, Sweden, when they were screened for AN.
with a population of 570,000 in the city proper and about 1 million in the metropolitan area.
A final group of 24 individuals was pooled with 27 with AN who were identified through community screening who were born in 1969 or during 1971-1974.
The 59 persons with AN and 51 school- and gender-matched controls were followed prospectively and examined at 16, 21, 24, and 44 years of age.
Most participants (96%) agreed to participate at the 30-year follow-up.
At the 30-year follow-up point, there had been no deaths from AN.
Of the participants.
2% had BED, and 11% had other specified eating or feeding disorders), 38 had other psychiatric disorders, and 64% were fully recovered from their eating disorder.
Full recovery was designated as being free of all eating disorder criteria for 6 consecutive months.
During the 30 years, the participants had an eating disorder for an average of 10 years, and 23% had received no psychiatric treatment.
Factors associated with a good outcome were predicted by later age at onset among individuals with adolescent-onset AN and premorbid perfectionism.
This important long-term study of the course of adolescent-onset AN showed a favorable outcome, with no mortality and full symptom recovery in most.
One negative finding, however, was that 1 in 5 of the participants still had a chronic eating disorder after three decades.
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