What is the outcome of anorexia?

[Jackson]

Can Early diagnosis and treatment can improve the overall prognosis in an individual with anorexia ?

[admin]

Yes, it may improve the overall prognosis.

[culorn]

I have read somewhere that the treatment for early diagnosis and treatment does not necessarily imply an improved long-term result.

[Mitchell]

The course and outcome of anorexia nervosa vary across individuals: some fully recover after a single episode; some have a fluctuating pattern of weight gain and relapse; and others experience a chronically deteriorating course of illness over many years.

[kinnest]

The outcome for the anorexic patients was in line with the overall findings in the Steinhausen review.[5**] Two of the patients died as a direct consequence of their condition (as did two of the EDNOS patients). 59% had no diagnosable eating disorder at 5 years, though when psychosocial functioning was taken into account only one third of patients made a complete recovery. A worse outcome was predicted by a lower body weight, more frequent binge-vomiting at presentation, and less rapid change in body related attitudes,[9*] but not by a longer duration of illness before presentation.

[smith007]

The outcome for the anorexic patients was in line with the overall findings in the Steinhausen review. Two of the patients died as a direct consequence of their condition. 59% had no diagnosable eating disorder at 5 years, though when psychosocial functioning was taken into account only one third of patients made a complete recovery. A worse outcome was predicted by a lower body weight, more frequent binge-vomiting at presentation, and less rapid change in body related attitudes, but not by a longer duration of illness before presentation.

[mackgrath]

I have read somewhere that the treatment for early diagnosis and treatment does not necessarily imply an improved long-term result.Different treatment and psychotherapeutic approaches were used.The diversity of interventions precluded any definite evaluation of treatment effects.

[javan]

Treating anorexia is a long term process and it requires support even after recovering to avoid the symptoms to reappear again. In anorexia, a person who is under weight feels as if he is too fat. Such typical mental disorders arise in anorexia and also irregular heart beats, hypotension, hormonal imbalances, dizziness, kidney and liver disorders accopanies.

[sherryjonshon]

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[Rose1]

Because as many as half of anorexia nervosa (AN) patients have relapses, identifying possible factors that might help predict relapse might help clinicians develop better treatment interventions for patients. In what is believed to be the first study to examine body composition as a predictor of relapse among AN patients, Dr. Laurel E. S. Mayer and co-workers at Columbia University tested body composition and fasting cortisol and leptin levels among weight-recovered women with AN before the women were randomly assigned to treatment.