Young people from less-advantaged backgrounds are more likely to have an undiagnosed eating disorder

Eating disorders are often associated with teenage girls from socioeconomically advantaged families. However, a caller survey from the University of Copenhagen challenges this perception, suggesting that eating disorders are conscionable arsenic apt to impact young radical from little advantaged backgrounds. The researchers analyzed information connected eating upset diagnoses from much than 500,000 radical calved successful Denmark betwixt 1996 and 2003. For a subgroup of 44,000 young people, they besides had accusation connected self-reported symptoms of eating disorders.