Risk of Death:
Many studies of anorexic patients have reported death rates ranging from 4%-20%
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Long Term Outlook:
Depending on your circumstances recovery can take between 4-11 years. There are many factors that play into how soon one might overcome their struggle with food and body image issues. A few things that attribute to one's recovery are support of family, friends, access to health care, knowledge, wisdom and the will from above. It's extremely important to know the longer you struggle...well recovery will take time. It's a PROCESS!!!!!
Heart Disease:
The heart can develope dangerous rhythms, including slow rhythms known as bradycardia. Blood flow is reduced and blood pressure may drop. In addition, the heart muscles starve, losing size.
Reproductive and Hormonal Abnormalities:
Long-term irregular or absent menstruation. In severe anorexia, even after treatment, normal menstruation never returns. Women who become pregnant before regaining normal weight face a poor reproductive future with low birth weights and frequent miscarriages. Patients who are rehabilitated at a young age (15 years or younger) are more likely to achieve normal bone density.
Neurological Problems:
People with severe anorexia may suffer nerve damage and experience seizures, disordered thinking, loss of feeling, or other nerve problems in hands and feet.
Blood Problems:
A life-threatening condition called pancytopenia.
Gastrointestinal Problems:
Bloating and constipation are both very common problems in people with anorexia.
For more information on complications and mortality rates visit:
www.state.sc.us/dmh/anorexia/statistics.htm
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