Researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have announced some positive findings from a long-term study of sufferers of anorexia.
The study, which followed all Swedish women between the ages of 10 and 24 who entered treatment for anorexia between 1987 and 1992, showed rates of morbidity among women diagnosed with the disease have decreased, possibly due to increased research into the disease since the 1990s or due to medical advances in treating malnutrition. Unfortunately, results also showed that a much higher percentage of these women had also received psychiatric care or social welfare than the general population, suggesting marked long-term effects of the disease.
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