Patients with anorexia nervosa are at significantly increased risk for cardiovascular conditions such as congestive heart failure and cardiac arrest compared with people without an eating disorder, ...

Anorexia is a severe psychiatric condition and the eating disorder with the highest mortality rate. Without treatment, it can cause health complications that may lead to multiple organ failure. Also ...

Anorexia can affect nearly every organ and body system. Over time, it can lead to endocrine, digestive, heart, fertility, and kidney issues. In the long term, anorexia can also affect relationships, ...

In the first part of this miniseries, I outlined the basics of what kinds of questions we can ask about anorexia and how the mind works. If we’re looking for evidence that anorexia nervosa goes hand ...

Anorexia nervosa is a type of eating disorder that leads people to obsess over their body image, weight, and caloric intake. It has the highest mortality rate of any mental health disorder. If left ...

The idea of someone not skinny—let alone “fat”—with anorexia nervosa goes directly against how the disorder is depicted in the media. For example, when you think of anorexia, what image comes to your ...

I spat the word at my reflection in the mirror, reeling off the definitions I’d just read in my head. (of a woman) infertile showing no results or achievements; unproductive (of land) too poor to ...