The New York Times (5/2, Bakalar) reports, “Girls who have serious or repeated infections in childhood are at higher risk for developing eating disorders in adolescence,” researchers concluded after tracking “525,643 girls – every girl born in Denmark from 1989 through 2006” – and recording “all prescriptions that were filled for antibiotics and other anti-infective medications, as well as hospitalizations for infection, through 2012. There were 4,240 diagnoses of eating disorders during that time.” The findings were published online April 24 in JAMA Psychiatry.
Related Links:
— “Anti-Infective Drugs Tied to Eating Disorders, “Nicholas Bakalar, The New York Times, May 2, 2019