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Anorexia nervosa in males

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

R.M. Freire Lucas
R.M. Freire Lucas*
Affiliation:
Coimbra University Hospitals, Coimbra, Portugal

Abstract

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Eating disorders are far more prevalent in women than men, with only 10% of cases occurring in males. This discrepancy may be partially explained by biological and cultural factors, but it also suggests diagnostic difficulties.

Introduced by the description of a clinical case of Anorexia Nervosa (AN) in a male patient, this work reviews and compares diagnostic features of eating disorders, namely AN, in both genders, emphasizing the most common pitfalls to its recognition in men, in order to reduce the number of undiagnosed cases.

We searched for scientific articles about this topic on the databases MEDLINE, LILACS and PsycINFO, using the search words “eating disorder”, “anorexia nervosa” and “male”. We chose to preferentially include original articles and recent reviews.

Type
P02-122
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 26 , Issue S2: Abstracts of the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2011 , pp. 718
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2011
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