Healio (1/31, Weldon) says, “Hospitalizations for eating disorders have increased steadily among adolescents in the United States, including a spike during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported in Hospital Pediatrics.” Specifically, “hospitalizations increased more than sevenfold from 294 in 2010 to 2,135 in 2021, which was the highest yearly total. Hospitalizations increased more than 70% from 2019 – the year before the pandemic – to 2021. They decreased slightly after that to 1,783 cases in 2022.”
Related Links:
— “Adolescent eating disorder hospitalizations increasing in US,”Rose Weldon, Healio, January 31, 2024