The epidemiology of anorexia nervosa
- 1 May 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 3 (2) , 200-203
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700048522
Abstract
Synopsis All patients with anorexia nervosa were extracted from three psychiatric case registers— North-East Scotland, Camberwell, and Monroe County. The average incidence varied from 0·37 per 100,000 population per year in Monroe County to 1·6 per 100,000 in North-East Scotland, in all three areas the number of cases reported per year was increasing, and in Camberwell, but not in Monroe County or North-East Scotland, there was a significant excess of patients from middle-class backgrounds.Keywords
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