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New Study on Anorexia Risk Factors

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The psychiatric disease with the highest mortality rate is anorexia nervosa. It is also the third most common chronic illnesses among young people in the United States. In a recent study on mice, researchers from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) found that social isolation stress and a restricted diet increased the risk of anorexia.  Lead researcher Lori Zeltser, PhD explains, “Our findings show that having the at-risk genotype alone is not sufficient to cause anorexia-like behavior, but it confers susceptibility to social stress and dieting, especially during adolescence. You need all of these variables in place to see this robust effect on eating.”

 

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