Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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Anorexia nervosa and the long‐term risk of mortality in women

Nathalie Auger, Brian J. Potter, Ugochinyere Vivian Ukah, Nancy Low, Mimi Israël, Howard Steiger, et al.
World Psychiatry Summary & key facts 2021 105 citations

In a study of 1,298,890 women in Quebec, 5,169 who had been hospitalized for anorexia nervosa were followed up to March 31, 2018. Women with hospital-treated anorexia had higher death rates over time than women without anorexia. The higher risk was strongest in the first 10 years after hospitalization and…

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