Clinical Characteristics of Inpatients with Childhood vs. Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa

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  • We aimed to compare the clinical data at first presentation to inpatient treatment of children (<14 years) vs. adolescents (≥14 years) with anorexia nervosa (AN), focusing on duration of illness before hospital admission and body mass index (BMI) at admission and discharge, proven predictors of the outcomes of adolescent AN. Clinical data at first admission and at discharge in 289 inpatients with AN (children: n = 72; adolescents: n = 217) from a German multicenter, web-based registry for consecutively enrolled patients with childhood andWe aimed to compare the clinical data at first presentation to inpatient treatment of children (<14 years) vs. adolescents (≥14 years) with anorexia nervosa (AN), focusing on duration of illness before hospital admission and body mass index (BMI) at admission and discharge, proven predictors of the outcomes of adolescent AN. Clinical data at first admission and at discharge in 289 inpatients with AN (children: n = 72; adolescents: n = 217) from a German multicenter, web-based registry for consecutively enrolled patients with childhood and adolescent AN were analyzed. Inclusion criteria were a maximum age of 18 years, first inpatient treatment due to AN, and a BMI <10th BMI percentile at admission. Compared to adolescents, children with AN had a shorter duration of illness before admission (median: 6.0 months vs. 8.0 months, p = 0.004) and higher BMI percentiles at admission (median: 0.7 vs. 0.2, p = 0.004) as well as at discharge (median: 19.3 vs. 15.1, p = 0.011). Thus, in our study, children with AN exhibited clinical characteristics that have been associated with better outcomes, including higher admission and discharge BMI percentile. Future studies should examine whether these factors are actually associated with positive long-term outcomes in children.show moreshow less

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Author: Charlotte Jaite, Katharina Bühren, Brigitte Dahmen, Astrid Dempfle, Katja Becker, Christoph U. Correll, Karin M. Egberts, Stefan Ehrlich, Christian Fleischhaker, Alexander von Gontard, Freia Hahn, David Kolar, Michael Kaess, Tanja Legenbauer, Tobias J. Renner, Ulrike Schulze, Judith Sinzig, Ellen Thomae, Linda Weber, Ida Wessing, Gisela Antony, Johannes Hebebrand, Manuel Föcker, Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-193160
Document Type:Journal article
Faculties:Medizinische Fakultät / Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie
Language:English
Parent Title (English):Nutrients
ISSN:2072-6643
Year of Completion:2019
Volume:11
Issue:11
Pagenumber:2593
Source:Nutrients 2019, 11(11), 2593; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11112593
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11112593
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Tag:BMI; adolescents; anorexia nervosa; children; clinical characteristics; outcome
Release Date:2020/08/24
Date of first Publication:2019/10/28
Licence (German):License LogoCC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International