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This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they exist. The article ends with the authors' clinical recommendations.
A 17-year-old girl is taken to her physician by worried parents. Never overweight, in the past six months she became determined to reduce from her baseline weight of 59.1 kg (130 lb). Her height is 1.7 m (5 ft 6 in.); her body-mass index (the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters) is 21. Through dieting and
The Clinical Problem
Strategies and Evidence
Diagnosis
Treatment
Refeeding
Immediate Psychiatric Interventions
Prevention of Relapse
Management of Bone Loss
Areas of Uncertainty
Recommendations from Guidelines
Summary and Conclusions
Addendum
Source Information
From the Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque (J.Y.); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa School of Medicine, Iowa City (A.E.A.).
Address reprint requests to Dr. Yager at the Department of Psychiatry, 1 University of New Mexico, MSC09 5030, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, or at jyager@unm.edu.
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