Statistical Studies on the Prognosis of Anorexia nervosa

Abstract

Statistical studies on the prognosis of anorexia nervosa were carried out by our research group. Subjects were 224 cases from 36 university hospitals throughout Japan. A questionnaire was mailed to each of the 224 patients in cooperation with their doctors. The outcome of 143 of the 224 cases was judged by their doctors as ‘good’ in 47 cases, ‘intermediate’ in 69 cases and ‘poor’ in 19 cases. 8 of the patients had died. The prognosis of typical cases was much poorer than that of atypical cases.

How effective is outpatient care compared to inpatient care for the treatment of anorexia nervosa? a systematic review

“…Thirteen of these were excluded because: global or weight outcomes were not reported (1); follow-up length was too short or not stated (3); or there was no differentiation in results between inpatients and outpatients (9). Two case series gave separate outcomes for inpatients and outpatients (Hsu et al, 1979;Crisp et al, 1980;Suematsu et al, 1980Suematsu et al, , 1985Hsu, 1987). There were four exclusively inpatient case series (Pierloot et al, 1982;Vandereycken and Pierloot, 1983a, b, c;Remschmidt and Muller 1987;Remschmidt et al, 1988;Jeammet et al, 1991;Vandereycken and Pieters, 1992) and one exclusively day-patient case series (Gerlinghoff et al, 1998).…”

Psychophysiological Studies of Eating Disorders by Means of Visual Evoked Responses

“…On the basis of diagnostic criteria suggested by Suematsu et al [23], the 14 subjects were subdivided into three groups: (a) 5 patients with typical anorexia nervosa, (b) 5 patients with atypical anorexia nervosa, and (c) 4 patients with bulimia. The patients of the typical anorexia nervosa group were all females and their physical symptoms were lack of appetite and emaciation.…”

“…Suematsu et al [23] established the criteria for the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa as follows: (1) loss of more than 20% of standard bodyweight; (2) a history of weight loss for more than 3 months; (3) age of onset less than 30 years of age; (4) female; (5) amenorrhea; (6) eating disturbances; (7) desire to reduce body weight. (8) hyperactivity; (9) denial of the exis tence of disease; (10) absence of evidence of organic disease or endogenous psychiatric disease [23].…”

“…(8) hyperactivity; (9) denial of the exis tence of disease; (10) absence of evidence of organic disease or endogenous psychiatric disease [23].…”

“…All had entered the internal ward and had been found to have no other known medical illnesses. The diagnosis of anorexia nervosa had been made on diagnostic criteria suggested by Suem atsu et al [23]. Taylor's manifest anxiety scale (MAS) was used to measure the patients' manifestation of anxiety.…”