Medical Comorbidities, Nutritional Markers, and Cardiovascular Risk Markers in Youth With ARFID.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is common among populations with nutrition-related medical conditions. Less is known about the medical comorbidity/complication frequencies in youth with ARFID. We evaluated the medical comorbidities and metabolic/nutritional markers among female and male youth with full/subthreshold ARFID across the weight spectrum compared with healthy controls (HC).

Method

In youth with full/subthreshold ARFID (n = 100; 49% female) and HC (n = 58; 78% female), we assessed self-reported medical comorbidities via clinician interview and explored abnormalities in metabolic (lipid panel and high-sensitive C-reactive protein [hs-CRP]) and nutritional (25[OH] vitamin D, vitamin B12, and folate) markers.

Results

Youth with ARFID,

SUBMITTER: Burton-Murray H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11687417 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature