Thursday, January 27, 2005

Study reveals childhood vulnerabilities that may lead to eating disorders NewsRx.com story at PsycPORT - "Do childhood traits set the stage for eating disorders? New research suggests they might. In a study reported in the December 2004 American Journal of Psychiatry, psychiatrist Walter H. Kaye, MD, of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and an international team of researchers found that people with current or past eating disorders often report having had anxiety disorders in childhood, and that anxious symptoms tend to persist even after recovery from the eating disorder."