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An adult with Prader‐Willi syndrome and anorexia nervosa: A case report
Author(s) -
Counts Debra
Publication year - 2001
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/eat.1079
Subject(s) - dieting , anorexia nervosa , psychology , weight loss , cachexia , anorexia , family history , eating disorders , psychiatry , endocrinology , medicine , obesity , cancer
A 39‐year‐old man with Prader‐Willi syndrome presents for evaluation of uncontrolled weight loss. Past history was significant for gastric bypass and prior episodes of intentional dieting. Family history was significant for an alcoholic father and two siblings with anorexia nervosa. The patient was unconcerned about his weight loss despite cachexia and did not want to stop dieting. This presentation of a restrictive eating pattern in a man with a syndrome usually associated with compulsive hyperphagia is the first known report © 2001 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Int J Eat Disord 30: 231–233, 2001.