CLINICAL PATTERNS OF ANOREXIA NERVOSA DEPENDING ON AGE
Abstract:
Anorexia nervosa is defined as a psychopathologic
syndrome with varied etiology, characterized
by self imposed, drastic and selective limitation of the
individual’s diet, determining a significant loss of weight,
metabolic disorders and severe hydro-electrolytic lack of
balance, all of which put life in danger. The positive
diagnosis of anorexia nervosa is based both on the
symptomatic triad: anorexia, significant weight loss and
amenorrhea (with the equivalent of amenorrhea in men:
decrease of libido and erection) and on the absence of an
organic etiology or of a psychic disorder (depressive
disorders, schizophrenia etc.). Anorexia nervosa usually
makes its debut in puberty and adolescence, very seldom
before the age of 10 and over the age of 30.
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