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The outcome of anorexia nervosa: a reappraisal 1 In 1980, Hsu reviewed 16 major studies on the outcome of anorexia nervosa published between 1954 and 1979 and came to the conclusion proposed earlier by Overall he found that 75 % of patients had improved at follow-up four to eight years later, and that the mortality for the illness was low (less than 5% in the more recent studies). A subsequent review of 45 studies by Steinhausen & Glenville (1983) did not seem to contradict these claims.
L. K. George Hsu (Tue,) studied this question.