A study examining the course of the disease and the lives of people with anorexia began in 1985. In total, scientists observed 51 adolescents diagnosed with anorexia nervosa and compared them to the same number of healthy young adults. The groups were studied and compared several times over many years.

As a result, 18 years later, three women still suffered from anorexia, 13 people received a disability pension or took sick-leave for six months or more because of eating disorders or other mental disorders, and 39%, besides eating disorders, have another mental disorder. The most common additional disorder is an obsessive-compulsive neurosis.

However, not everything turned out so badly. Although usually anorexia is considered quite a serious disease with a pessimistic prognosis, and one in five patients dies, no one died among the participants in the experiment. Also, infertility is a very frequent complication of the disease, as well as premature birth and postnatal depression. However, women in both groups had approximately the same number of children, although those suffering from anorexia gave birth to the first child at an earlier age. Children of women with anorexia weighed less at birth. "None of the women who gave birth to children is no longer suffering from eating disorders, but many of them continue to worry if their children recover," Wentz said..

Anorexia nervosa - this is a fairly common in young girls mental illness. Approximately 1% of adolescent girls suffer from anorexia. The most commonly anaeraxis is diagnosed at the age of 14-17 years, and this disease can last for many years health. Sumy. Ua.