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Eating disorder in a 6‐year‐old Asian girl with ethyl malonic adipic aciduria
Author(s) -
Ballard C. G.,
Handy S.,
McGibben L.,
Mohan R. N. C.,
Silveira W. R.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/1098-108x(199303)13:2<245::aid-eat2260130214>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - girl , eating disorders , psychology , psychiatry , population , pediatrics , eating attitudes test , medicine , developmental psychology , environmental health
Accurate data are not available for the prevalence of eating disorders amongst the Asian population in Britain. Only a handful of cases have been reported in the literature [Bhadrinath (1990). British Journal of Psychiatry, 156, 565–568.] suggested that it is an uncommon phenomenon despite Dolan's recent finding [Dolan, Lacey, & Evans (1990). British Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 523–528.] that there were elevated Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) scores in a sample of young Asian adults compared with Caucasians. We report a case of an Asian girl with a rare inborn error of metabolism and an eating disorder. © 1993 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.