Anorexia Nervosa: Case Report With Autopsy Findings

Brosin, Henry W.; Apfelbach, Carl W.

doi:10.1210/jcem-1-3-272

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“…3, the maximum amount of weight lost; expressed as a percentage of the standard weight, is plotted against the duration of the disease as measured by the period of the amenorrhoea. It is Any case where the history suggested or the post mortem proved active tuberculosis has been excluded, because such an infection masks the normal course of the disease, particularly the terminal stages (Whytt, 1768;Osgood, 1938;Brosin and Apfelbach, I94I).…”

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A Study of the Body Weight in Anorexia Nervosa

Emanuel

1957

Postgraduate Medical Journal

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Loss of weight has always been accepted as one; of the cardinal features in anorexia nervosa, but there has been no previous attempt to study its fluctuations in relation to the natural history of the disease.The object of the work recorded here was to, determine the following points:-(a) The weight of patients before the development of anorexia nervosa.(b) The maximum amount of weight lost in non-fatal cases in relation to the duration of the disease.(c) The amount of weight lost in fatal cases in relation to the duration of the disease.

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