Journal article
Incidence and outcomes of eating disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Abstract:
- There are concerns that eating disorders have become commoner during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the electronic health records of 5.2 million people aged under 30, mostly in the USA, we show that the diagnostic incidence was 15.3% higher in 2020 overall compared to previous years (relative risk 1.15 [95% CI: 1.12-1.19). The relative risk increased steadily from March 2020 onwards, exceeding 1.5 by the end of the year. The increase occurred solely in females, and primarily affected teenagers and anorexia nervosa. A higher proportion of eating disorder patients in 2020 had suicidal ideation (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.30 [1.16-1.47] or attempted suicide (HR: 1.69 [1.21-2.35]).
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1192/bjp.2021.105
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- British Journal of Psychiatry More from this journal
- Volume:
- 220
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 262 - 264
- Publication date:
- 2021-07-27
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-06-29
- DOI:
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1472-1465
- ISSN:
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0007-1250
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1186250
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pubs:1186250
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2021-07-14
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- Taquet et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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