Abstract:Prior research has reported increased fracture risk in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN), but more knowledge on the long‐term risk, and the effect of age, male sex and time related changes is still needed. We examined the long‐term (up to 40 years) fracture risk among patients with AN compared to a matched comparison cohort from the general population. We utilized data from the Danish Health Care Registers to identify 14,414 patients with AN (13,474 females and 940 males) diagnosed between 1977–2018, with a … Show more
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