Eating Disorders Impact Health For Years, Researchers Find

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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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