The B.C. specialists who published the research this month say they hope their dramatic life-expectancy statistics will both motivate anorexia patients to get better, and spur governments to more generously fund work on the condition, the Canadian newspaper The National Post reported.
Among the studys results was the finding that a 15-year-old girl who develops an eating disorder will die at age 56 -- 25 years sooner than the life expectancy of the average Canadian female.
Dr. Laird Birmingham, lead researcher and psychiatry professor at the University of British Columbia, said he also hopes the findings will counter the stigma often associated with anorexia and prompt more people to get help.
Labels: anorexia, life_expectancy
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