MedPage Today (11/26, Monaco) reports, “Among young children, the prevalence of eating disorders was similar between girls and boys,” researchers concluded. In fact, “in a large, nationally representative sample of American children, ages nine to ten years, about 1.4% (95% CI 1.0%-1.8%) had a diagnosed eating disorder according to” the American Psychiatric Association’s “DSM-5 criteria,” the study found. Included in the study were “data on over 4,500 children (majority were boys and white) who participated in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study,” which was “supported by the” National Institutes of Health “and other federal partners.” The findings were published online Nov. 26 in a research letter in JAMA Pediatrics.
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