School nurses and other primary care staff need to do more screening of young people, especially girls, for eating disorders, new research suggests.
A study on the incidence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa by researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry suggests girls aged 10 to 19 are most at risk of suffering from the disorders.
The research, which screened the General Practice Research Database for new cases of the disorders between 1994 and 2000, found the annual incidence rate of anorexia was stable, while a "marked increase" in bulimia in the early 1990s was followed by a drop in the incidence rate.
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