Forbes (12/7) contributor Anuradha Varanasi writes research “shows there was an almost 66 percent jump per month in anorexia diagnoses among girls between the ages of 9 to 18 years during the first wave of the pandemic.” What’s more, researchers “further observed that the number of hospitalizations for” patients newly diagnosed with anorexia “nearly tripled compared with pre-pandemic rates.” The study, published in JAMA Network Open, included “1883 children and adolescents with newly diagnosed anorexia nervosa.”
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— “Anorexia Cases Among Children & Teens Have Risen During Covid-19: Study “Anuradha Varanasi, Forbes, December 7, 2021