Short stature as a possible etiological factor in anorexia nervosa
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
- Vol. 76 (3) , 328-332
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1987.tb02903.x
Abstract
The 21st case of concurrence of anorexia nervosa (AN) and gonadal dysgenesis (GD) or Turners syndrome is presented together with two more cases of AN in girls of short stature, but with normal chromosomes. The concurrence of AN and GD in the Danish population over a 10 year period is found not to be beyond the expected frequency. The possibility of low stature as such as an etiologic factor in AN is presented on the background of three cases. The same hypothesis has been suggested previously, but we cannot support the view of short stature as a common condition in AN patients premorbidly.Keywords
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