Comorbid mental disorders during long-term course in a nationwide cohort of patients with anorexia nervosa.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Comorbid mental disorders in anorexia nervosa during long-term course require detailed studies.

Method

This matched cohort study was based on nationwide Danish register data of all patients born 1961-2008 with a first-time ICD-10 diagnosis of anorexia nervosa (AN) between 1994 and 2018 at age 8-32 and matched controls taken from all individuals without an eating disorder (ED). For nine categories of non-eating mental disorders, time from date of first AN-diagnosis (inclusion date) to time of first diagnosis, accounting for censoring, was studied by use of time-stratified Cox models.

Results

A total of 9,985 patients with AN (93.5% females) and 49,351 matched controls were followed for a median (IQR) of 9.0 (4.4-15.7) years. For patients, there was about 25%

SUBMITTER: Steinhausen HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8453938 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature