NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Anorexia nervosa runs a longer course in girls than in boys, research shows.One year after undergoing treatment for anorexia, Dr. Michael Strober of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and colleagues found that girls showed a higher level of continued preoccupation with weight and eating than did boys. And while none of the boys in the current study had relapsed into full-blown anorexia at one year after treatment, 8.2 percent of girls had.>>> Discuss This Story
