MedPage Today (3/23, Henderson) reports a study found that “a sharp increase in the number of young people hospitalized with eating disorders immediately after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic had returned to pre-pandemic levels.” Researchers observed that “eating disorder-related hospital discharges among 8- to 25-year-olds increased by 30.9 per month through the first year of the pandemic to a peak of about 600 per month across 41 hospitals.” They noted that after April 2021, “eating disorder-related hospitalizations remained stable or modestly declined before a sharp drop in October 2024 put the pattern and volume of patients back to a level statistically indistinguishable from the pre-pandemic period, averaging in the range of roughly 350 per month through June 2025.” The studywas discussed in a JAMA Pediatrics research letter.
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