How do children with eating disorders differ from adolescents with eating disorders at initial evaluation?
Peebles R; Wilson JL; Lock JD Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94040, USA. rpeebles@stanford.edu PURPOSE: To compare the clinical presentation of children with eating disorders (ED) to that of adolescents with ED. METHODS: Demographic, medical, and psychiatric data of all 959 in- and outpatients (85 males, 874 females) 8-19 years of age diagnosed with ED that presented to an academic center between 1997 and 2005 were examined via retrospective record review.
