Epidemiology of anorexia nervosa in men: a nationwide study of Finnish twins. Export

@article{citeulike:4037788, abstract = {BACKGROUND: To examine the epidemiology of anorexia nervosa in men, we screened Finnish male twins born in 1975-79. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Men (N = 2122) from FinnTwin16 birth cohorts were screened for lifetime eating disorders by a questionnaire. The screen positives (N = 18), their male co-twins (N = 10) and those with lifetime minimum BMI< or =17.5 (N = 21) were administered the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV anorexia nervosa. The incidence rate of anorexia nervosa for the presumed peak age of risk (10-24y) was 15.7 per 100,000 person-years; its lifetime prevalence was 0.24\%. All probands had recovered from eating disorders, but suffered from substantial psychiatric comorbidity, which also manifested in their co-twins. Additionally, male co-twins displayed significant dissatisfaction with body musculature, a male-specific feature of body dysmorphic disorder. CONCLUSIONS: Anorexia nervosa in males in the community is more common, transient and accompanied by more substantial comorbidity than previously thought.}, author = {Raevuori, A. and Hoek, H. W. and Susser, E. and Kaprio, J. and Rissanen, A. and Keski-Rahkonen, A.}, citeulike-article-id = {4037788}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004402}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19204790}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19204790}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0004402}, issn = {1932-6203}, journal = {PLoS ONE}, number = {2}, posted-at = {2009-02-12 07:55:54}, priority = {2}, title = {Epidemiology of anorexia nervosa in men: a nationwide study of Finnish twins.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004402}, volume = {4}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4037788 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4037788 N2 - BACKGROUND: To examine the epidemiology of anorexia nervosa in men, we screened Finnish male twins born in 1975-79. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Men (N = 2122) from FinnTwin16 birth cohorts were screened for lifetime eating disorders by a questionnaire. The screen positives (N = 18), their male co-twins (N = 10) and those with lifetime minimum BMI< or =17.5 (N = 21) were administered the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV anorexia nervosa. The incidence rate of anorexia nervosa for the presumed peak age of risk (10-24y) was 15.7 per 100,000 person-years; its lifetime prevalence was 0.24%. All probands had recovered from eating disorders, but suffered from substantial psychiatric comorbidity, which also manifested in their co-twins. Additionally, male co-twins displayed significant dissatisfaction with body musculature, a male-specific feature of body dysmorphic disorder. CONCLUSIONS: Anorexia nervosa in males in the community is more common, transient and accompanied by more substantial comorbidity than previously thought. IS - 2 JF - PLoS ONE SN - 1932-6203 TI - Epidemiology of anorexia nervosa in men: a nationwide study of Finnish twins. VL - 4 AU - Raevuori, A AU - Hoek, HW AU - Susser, E AU - Kaprio, J AU - Rissanen, A AU - Keski-Rahkonen, A PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004402 ER -