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African-American Women and Eating Disorders: Depression, and the Strong Black Woman Archetype

By Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, MPH, CEDS While eating disorders have long been considered a “white woman’s problem,” recent findings show that eating disorders are becoming a major health issue for black…

From Across the Desk

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.- Arnold H. Glasow This month, our lead article, “African-American Women and Eating Disorders: Depression, and the Strong Black Woman Archetype,” by Carolyn Coker…

Update: Just Under the Radar: Muscle-Building and Eating Disorders

Muscularity-oriented disordered eating has joined some of the newer risks of muscle dysmorphia. With this type of disordered eating, teens may feel that heavy physical workouts will help them gain weight or…

More Genetic Evidence Found in Anorexia Nervosa

Recent large studies point to 8 regions in the genome. As previously described in Eating Disorders Review, a genome-wide association study (GWAS) showed further evidence of the genetic basis of AN, but…

Another Brain Change Noted in Anorexia Nervosa Patients

With weight recovery, plasma neurofilament light chain levels fell. A number of structural brain changes have been identified in patients with AN, including reductions in grey or white matter, as well as…

Linking Emotion and Impulsivity with Binge Eating

Two studies probe reasons for persisting episodes. Binge-eating disorder (BED) is now the most common eating disorder, and currently affects approximately 2.8 million Americans. Binge-eating disorder is described as feeling out of…

Men with Eating Disorders: Data Are Scarce

Authors call for a new evaluation of diagnostic criteria among men. For a long time, information about eating disorders among men has been largely lacking. The results of an eight-year, population-based observational…

Selling Health and Happiness on Instagram

Study shows how ‘influencers’ use the social network to promote their products in the guise of improving beauty and health. A Germany survey has indicated that 85% of 12- to 17-year-olds spend…

Improving Gastroenterologists’ Awareness of Eating Disorders

Red flags include progressive food restriction and fear of food. In a recent interview, gastroenterologist Kimberly N. Harer, MD, ScM, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, noted that disordered eating or…

Predicting the Return of Menses in Anorexia Nervosa Patients

A relatively simple and widely available test aids the diagnosis. Despite the fact that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, or DSM-5, removed amenorrhea as one of the…

Tracking Self-Image and Treatment Outcome

A patient’s initial self-image had an impact on outcome a year later. Self-image, or the way we view ourselves, has real predictive value in treatment outcome, according to findings at the Karolinska…

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: Looking for the Cause of Clubbed Nails

Q. I have a new patient, a 23-year-old woman, who has significant clubbing of her fingernails (chronic swelling, or deformity of the nail bed) on both hands. She was referred from a renal…