TOPLINE:
Patients with anorexia nervosa are at significantly increased risk for cardiovascular conditions such as congestive heart failure and cardiac arrest compared with people without an eating disorder, researchers found. The risk for many of these conditions declines after 5 years of follow-up, whereas the risk for ischemic heart disease rises only after that period.
METHODOLOGY:
- Researchers conducted a longitudinal cohort study by analyzing the data from Taiwan’s National Health Insurance database to investigate the incidences and risk for cardiovascular conditions in patients with anorexia.
- They included 22,891 participants (mean age, 24.9 years; 91.3% women), of whom 2081 were diagnosed with anorexia between January 2010 and December 2021 and 20,810 were matched control participants without any eating disorder.
- The…