Eating Disorders: A Guide to Medical Care — AED Report 2021 | 4th Edition
Academy for Eating Disorders' (AED) Medical Care Standards Committee. https://www.aedweb.org/publications/medical-care-standards
Abstract
Key Points
- Eating disorders (EDs) are serious mental disorders with high rates of mortality
- Elevated rates of life-threatening medical and psychiatric morbidity are common regardless of an individual’s eating disorder diagnosis or weight
- Eating disorders affect people of all ages, genders, races, abilities, and socioeconomic statuses
- All clinicians should work to mitigate the risk of missing an eating disorder when a patient presents who does not conform to an imagined stereotype of someone with an eating disorder
Table of Contents
- WHAT Are Eating Disorders?
- WHEN Do I Worry?
- HOW Do I Treat?
- WHAT Can I Do?
- WHERE Can I Learn More?
