Clinical Characteristics of Inpatients with Childhood vs. Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa

Autor: Charlotte Jaite, Katharina Bühren, Brigitte Dahmen, Astrid Dempfle, Katja Becker, Christoph U. Correll, Karin M. Egberts, Stefan Ehrlich, Christian Fleischhaker, Alexander von Gontard, Freia Hahn, David Kolar, Michael Kaess, Tanja Legenbauer, Tobias J. Renner, Ulrike Schulze, Judith Sinzig, Ellen Thomae, Linda Weber, Ida Wessing, Gisela Antony, Johannes Hebebrand, Manuel Föcker, Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Nutrients, Vol 11, Iss 11, p 2593 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2072-6643
DOI: 10.3390/nu11112593
Popis: We aimed to compare the clinical data at first presentation to inpatient treatment of children (n = 72; adolescents: n = 217) from a German multicenter, web-based registry for consecutively enrolled patients with childhood and adolescent AN were analyzed. Inclusion criteria were a maximum age of 18 years, first inpatient treatment due to AN, and a BMI p = 0.004) and higher BMI percentiles at admission (median: 0.7 vs. 0.2, p = 0.004) as well as at discharge (median: 19.3 vs. 15.1, p = 0.011). Thus, in our study, children with AN exhibited clinical characteristics that have been associated with better outcomes, including higher admission and discharge BMI percentile. Future studies should examine whether these factors are actually associated with positive long-term outcomes in children.
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