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Anorexia Nervosa and Impact After Three Decades

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There are currently only two outcome studies of anorexia nervosa (AN) with a follow-up period of 30 years or more. Both of them have been carried out in Sweden, but apart from that there are few similarities. One of the studies was published in the mid-1980s and the other one 35 years later. The former reported high mortality rates, and the latter had not experienced any deaths during the 30-year follow-up. Can the development of specialized eating disorder services during the last decades of the twentieth century explain the difference regarding a fatal or nonfatal outcome between the studies? The truth is probably much more complex. The two studies will be described, and similarities and differences will be discussed in this chapter.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Vastra Frolunda, Sweden

    Elisabet Wentz

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    Vinood Patel

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    Victor Preedy

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Wentz, E. (2022). Anorexia Nervosa and Impact After Three Decades. In: Patel, V., Preedy, V. (eds) Eating Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67929-3_25-1

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