Seventeen of 154 patients with hard-to-treat anorexia nervosa, about 11%, carried rare variants predicted to damage a gene called PLIN4, compared with about 3% of a healthy reference population. The ...

Sarah Zurub, from Coventry, marked 10 years in recovery after nearly dying from anorexia as a child.

Whole-exome sequencing has identified that rare damaging variants in the gene PLIN4, which is predominantly active in fat and muscle cells, are more common in people with anorexia, offering new ...

Kimberley Atkinson assumed her symptoms were depression until her behaviour started to change dramatically. These ...

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I am Aya Nakamura, a counselor specializing in eating disorders.When I had an eating disorder, I experienced living alone twice.Both ended in "total failure," and I feel I wasted a lot of money.Today, ...

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