Key Takeaways
Eating disorders can harm a person’s health in ways that linger for years
Patients' risk for organ failure, broken bones, heart failure, diabetes, mental health problems and death skyrockets in the first year following diagnosis with an eating disorder
Some of those risks remain substantially high years later
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