The condition largely affects young adolescent women, with between 15 and 19 years old
About 70% of young females are not satisfied with the shape - and size - of their bodies.
One in 10 young urban female college students is prone to eating disorders in their quest for a perfect body shape
Primary anorexia nervosa appears to be a very rare condition in Malaysia, especially amongst Malays compared to Chinese and Indians.
Prevalence of eating disorders in Asian countries was comparable to that in the West, where between 1% and 4% of girls aged between 14 and 18 have an eating disorder.
In Singapore, a National University of Singapore’s (NUS) study of 4,400 female students in 2005 also showed that 7% of them were found to be at high risk of disorders like anorexia and bulimia.
Penang Hospital’s child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Lai Fong Hwa said there was a six-fold increase in the incidence of eating disorders in Singapore in the last 10 years.
In November 2006, Brazilian model Ana Carolina Reston, 21, was reported to have died of anorexia nervosa. She was 1.74m tall and weighed only 40kg when she died.
Countries where eating disorders are common include Japan, South Korea, Thailand, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Egypt and Israel, she added.
Eating disorders are more common among females than males. For every 10 to 20 females with eating disorders, there would be one male with similar problem.
In a population of 60 patients suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorders, the authors find 5 patients (8.3% of the whole group), all female (13.1% of the whole female subgroup) with an anorexia nervosa among their antecedents
Review found more bulimia sufferers than anorexia sufferers in all countries
Students majoring in ballet, arts, medicine, and nursing in the United Kingdom had high EAT-26 scores; EAT is eating attitude test.
source:
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/6/24/nation/17817717&sec=nation
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8641163
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/487413_3
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