How much do you know about anorexia? (answers!)
January 26, 2009 by angelique
Filed under Women's Health
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ANSWER KEY:
1. Answer: b.
While malnourishment, osteoporosis and liver disease could garner an anorexic an extended hospital stay, the most common reason that anorexics are hospitalized is heart damage.
2. Answer: c.
Anxiety problems often go hand-in-hand with anorexia (or other eating disorders).
3. Answer: a.
Anorexia is thought to affect less than 1 percent of the population. (There is a caveat to that, however, since many people are not properly diagnosed. Thus, the results may be slightly skewed.)
4. Answer: c.
About 90 percent of all anorexics are female.
5. Answer: b.
Anorexia has been diagnosed in girls as early as four or five years old.
6. Answer: a.
Although media and images of slender women isn’t the primary cause of anorexia, it has been shown to contribute to a culture’s mentality of the “perfect” body shape.
7. Answer: a.
Many anorexics’ families have a history of eating disordered members.
8. Answer: a.
An active anorexic can become pregnant, though it is admittedly very difficult. And if an active anorexic does become pregnant, miscarriage or other problems are common.
9. Answer: b.
One the DSM-IV’s criteria for anorexia nervosa is that the patient weighs less than 85 percent of what would be normal for his/her height/age/gender.
10. Answer: b.
Up to 10 percent of anorexics die prematurely.
Sources: MamasHealth.com, medicinenet.com, womenshealth.gov, webmd.com
