“…1 Medical and psychosocial risk factors for eating pathology and body image concerns also affect youth with IBD, including medical hyperfocus on weight, medically related food restriction, body image uncertainty, and societal praise of thinness despite health issues. 2 Treatment-related risk factors may increase vulnerability to eating pathology and poor body image, including adverse effects of steroids and psychosocial sequelae related to surgery/medical devices (eg, body dissatisfaction after surgery).…”