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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 …read more