Gone too soon: Studying mortality in eating disorders

Nadia Micali; Moritz Herle

doi:10.1111/acps.13527

Gone too soon: Studying mortality in eating disorders

Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2023 Feb;147(2):119-121. doi: 10.1111/acps.13527.

Authors

Nadia Micali^{1

2

3}, Moritz Herle⁴

Affiliations

¹ Eating Disorders Research Unit, Psychiatric Centre Ballerup, Mental Health Services in the Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
² Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK.
³ Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴ Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.

PMID: 36657102
DOI: 10.1111/acps.13527

Abstract

Eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and other specified feeding and eating disorder) are not only common mental health disorders but they also affect an individual's physical, psychological, and social well-being, with high impact and burden. Importantly, previous research has found that eating disorders have high mortality, higher than many other psychiatric disorders. Here, we discuss findings from Castellini and colleagues in the context of previous studies.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Anorexia Nervosa* / psychology
Binge-Eating Disorder* / psychology
Bulimia Nervosa*
Feeding and Eating Disorders*
Humans
Research