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📚 References:

Miller KK. Endocrine effects of anorexia nervosa. Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am. 2013 Sep;42(3):515-28. doi: 10.1016/j.ecl.2013.05.007. PMID: 24011884; PMCID: PMC3769686. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3769686/#R9

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12578435/

1 in 5 people with anorexia die from suicide
Arcelus J, Mitchell AJ, Wales J, Nielsen S. Mortality Rates in Patients With Anorexia Nervosa and Other Eating Disorders: A Meta-analysis of 36 Studies. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2011;68(7):724–731. doi:10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.74 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/1107207

20-35% of women with anorexia nervosa meet the diagnostic criteria for autism: 
Brede, J., Babb, C., Jones, C. et al. (2020). For Me, the Anorexia is Just a Symptom, and the Cause is the Autism: Investigating Restrictive Eating Disorders in Autistic Women. J Autism Dev Disord 50, 4280–4296. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32274604/

Tchanturia, K, Adamson, J, Leppanen, J, & Westwood, H. (2019). Characteristics of autism spectrum disorder in anorexia nervosa: A naturalistic study in an inpatient treatment programme. Autism : The International Journal of Research and Practice, 23(1), 123-130
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29105513/

Government Website Aus
https://eatingdisorders.org.au/eating-disorders-a-z/eating-disorders-and-autism/

The economic and social costs of eating disorders is $67 billion per year:
https://butterfly.org.au/news/new-report-reveals-alarming-growth-in-both-prevalence-and-cost-of-eating-disorders/?utm_source=chatgpt.com