Key result
Cardiovascular alterations occur in up to 75% of hospitalized anorexia nervosa patients, including bradycardia, hypotension, QT prolongation, and reduced ventricular mass.
Why the study?
Eating disorders are emerging psychiatric conditions with increasing subclinical forms and frequent physical complications, including serious heart problems and a 12-fold higher risk of death than in healthy age-matched subjects.
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Highlights the high prevalence of reversible and potentially fatal cardiovascular complications in eating disorders, emphasizing the need for regular ECG/echocardiographic monitoring, electrolyte correction, and gradual weight restoration.
The eating disorders (ED) represent the emerging psychiatric disorder in decades, with a prevalence of 0.1-2.1% for anorexia and 1-3% for bulimia [1-3].Unfortunately, the estimated prevalence must be considered failing for the growing spread of subclinical forms of these disorders, with a frequency that is up to 5 times higher than that of full syndromes [4,5].
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Milano et al. (2018) conducted a review in Eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder). Eating disorders was evaluated on Cardiovascular alterations in eating disorders. Cardiovascular alterations occur in up to 75% of hospitalized anorexia nervosa patients, including bradycardia, hypotension, QT prolongation, and reduced ventricular mass.
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