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Morbidity risk for obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders in first-degree relatives of patients with eating disorders.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Apr 2001
Bellodi L, Cavallini M C, Bertelli S, Chiapparino D, Riboldi C, Smeraldi E
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: A hypothesis that eating disorders are a phenomenological variant of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been proposed. This study was conducted to determine whether anorexia nervosa and bulimia, the two main eating disorders, are familial and whether the risk for obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders (OCD and tic disorders) is higher in families of patients with eating disorders. METHOD: The...
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