Thursday, April 7, 2011

Anorexia Increasing In Seniors | ThirdAge.com Articles

Anorexia Increasing In Seniors | ThirdAge.com Articles:
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"Anorexia is a psychological disorder characterized by delusions that make you believe you are too fat despite being emaciated. Most often it’s associated with teenage girls and young women. But a new study shows that it’s more likely to occur in senior women. When it does, it often takes a tragic turn, accounting for 78 percent of anorexia-caused deaths.

When psychologists at the University of British Columbia examined over ten thousand death records over a four year period, they discovered that the average age of death from anorexia for women was sixty-nine years. The most common complications that lead to death from the disease are cardiac arrest and imbalances in electrolytes and fluids."