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Clinical experience suggests that doc-umenting early osteopenia and making patients aware of the physiological effects of weight loss may. This is usually centered on the sense that the individual is overweight.
Anorexia nervosa commonly referred to as anorexia is a serious mental health condition that can drastically impair a persons physical health.
Physiological effects of anorexia. In the short-term the consequences of a diet deficient in calories and nutrients and excessive strenuous and relentless exercising can lead to excessive sleeping and deprivation of cognitive and social stimuli as school social events and friends are neglected. The foremost psychological effects of anorexia nervosa are. Obsessive and distorted views about ideal body shape.
An intense and irrational fear of gaining any kind of weight. Psychological effects associated with Anorexia Nervosa include. Depression Anxiety Sleep disturbances Impaired concentation decision making Mood swings irritability Preoccupation with foodcalories Obsessive compulsiveness Intense fear weight gain or feeling fat Social withdrawal.
THE PHYSIOLOGICALCONSEQUENCES OF THE STARVATION. The prevalence rates of anorexia nervosa AN have been shown to vary between 0 and 09 with an average rate of 029 in young females according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fourth Edition DSM-IV criteria 13The DMS-IV criteria for AN is as follows Refusal to maintain body weight at. Anorexia Anorexia Nervosa has very serious physical effects and complications as well as a devastating impact upon psychological well being.
The effects of anorexia are both short and long-term. There are the immediate physical effects as the body struggles to function without the nutrients and fuel that it needs. In anorexia nervosa and bulimia many physiological systems are affected.
This includes metabolic cardiovascular skeletal biochemical systems cognition thinking. The effects of an eating disorder can impact upon muscle changes renal complications and the appearance of the skinVomiting and Laxitive abuse can result in water storage. The physiologic anorexia of aging puts older persons at high risk for developing protein-energy malnutrition when they develop either psychologic or physical disease processes.
Despite its high prevalence however protein-energy malnutrition in older persons is rarely recognized and even more rarely treated appropriately. The effects of anorexia nervosa can be very serious and include. Extremely low body weight.
Swelling of the arms or legs. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by severe restriction of food intake which leads to weight loss and the medical consequences of starvation. Bulimia nervosa is characterized by attempts to curtail food intake interspersed with binge eating followed by self- induced vomiting to rid the body of food.
Some of the psychological effects posed by anorexia nervosa are as follows. Distorted self-image and body dysmorphia. Virtually every case of anorexia nervosa involves a distorted sense of self-image.
This is usually centered on the sense that the individual is overweight. Cause short-term adverse effects like erosion of the teeth enlargement of the parotid salivary glands and acidic stomachs leading to heartburn. Long-term adverse effects caused by BN are.
While Anorexia Nervosas classification is psychological its is often manifested in physiological effects to the bones brain and heart as well as such psychological effects as poor emotional processing depression and lasting body dysmorphism. Anorexia Nervosa has many serious physiological effects. Recommended to assess the physiological effect of anorexia nervosa.
Dual-energy x-ray absorptiome-try of bone is recommended because osteopenia may occur within six months of the development of amenorrhea. Clinical experience suggests that doc-umenting early osteopenia and making patients aware of the physiological effects of weight loss may. Firstly patients with anorexia tend to demonstrate abnormal serotonin processes involving receptors and transporters.
Secondly many comorbid personality and affective disorders that accompany anorexia such as anxiety harm avoidance and depression. Overall people with anorexia nervosa had a six fold increase in mortality compared to the general population. Reasons for death include starvation substance abuse and suicide.
Importantly the authors also found an increase rate of death from natural causes such as cancer. In general medical complications of anorexia nervosa are a direct result of weight loss and malnutrition. Starvation induces protein and fat catabolism that leads to loss of cellular volume and function resulting in adverse effects on and atrophy of the heart brain liver intestines kidneys and muscles Table 1.
One of the most concerning consequences of anorexia nervosa which might persist even with weight recovery is low BMD98 119 120 This side-effect is associated with altered bone microarchitecture121 122 and reduced strength121 123 The risk of fracture is higher in women with anorexia nervosa than in the general population13 124. Anorexia or bulimia victims feel anxiety or fear over the fact that someone may discover their secret. While feeling ashamed of their compulsion because of their skewed body image perception they fear having to give up the addiction and gaining weight.
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Aigner M Treasure J Kaye W et al. 2011 World Federation of Societies of Biological. Anorexia nervosa commonly referred to as anorexia is a serious mental health condition that can drastically impair a persons physical health.
When a person severely restricts food intake and limits or eliminates vital nutrients their bodys systems can begin to slow down leading to several potential short- and long-term effects many of which can be fatal.