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Assessing Activity-based Anorexia in Mice
Published on: May 14, 2018
Heart and anorexia nervosa
Abdallah Fayssoil1,2,3, Jean Claude Melchior4, Mouna Hanachi4
1Nutrition Unit, Raymond Poincaré Hospital, APHP, boulevard Raymond Poincaré, 92380, Garches, France. abdallah.fayssoil@aphp.fr.
Abstract:
Anorexia nervosa, one of the more frequent and severe eating disorders, is a chronic psychiatric disease with potentially serious somatic consequences. This behavioral symptomatology leads to weight loss, undernutrition, and more or less severe-potentially life-threatening-somatic complications including respiratory, hepatic, digestive and cardiac features, electrolyte disturbances, endocrine and bone impairment, immunodepression, and related opportunistic infections. In this review, the authors report an overview of cardiac diseases in this disease.
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