ECE2014 Poster Presentations Obesity (53 abstracts)
Profile of patients treated in our ‘eating disorders unit' from 1996 to the present
Victoria Contreras Bolívar , Rida Nagib Raya , María José Tapia Guerrero , María Fontalba Romero , Marta Domínguez López , Rosario Pilar Fernández García-Salazar , David Palao Serrano , Antonio Omiste Romero , Gabriel Olveira Fuster & Federico Soriguer Escofet
Endocrine and Nutrition, Hospital Carlos Haya, Málaga, Spain.
Rationale: Our aim has been to describe the assistance demand and the profile of patients treated in the eating disorders unit in our hospital.
Methods: Observational retrospective study (reviewing medical histories).
Results: One thousand two hundred and fourteen patients have been treated at the eating disorders unit between 1996 and 2012, 91.8% female. Age at first visit: 22.1±8.3 years. Time of monitoring tracking: 1.2±1.8 years.
The Diagnoses according to CIE-10 criterions were: anorexia nervosa (AN) 42.5%, atypical AN 14.0%, bulimia nervosa (BN) 20%, atypical BN 3.8%, other diagnoses 19.7%.
Comparing the diagnoses BN and AN, the age of patients at first visit was 20.4±6.5 vs 23.3±7.9 years (P<0.001) and follow-up time was 1.7±2.3 vs 0.7±1.3 years (P<0.001). In males, atypical forms were more prevalent.
The demand for care at the unit was higher between 1997–2004 (average 93 new patients per year) compared to 2005–2012 (average of 46 new patients per year). Half of the patients were discharged evaluated for cure (about 90% of those who completed the intervention program), while the 42.5% left the program.
Conclusion: The most common type of eating disorder referred to our unit is anorexia nervosa (56.5%). In anorexia nervosa, the age of the patients at first visit was lower and the time of monitoring tracking at our unit was higher compared to bulimia nervosa. In the last decade, the incidence of demand was reduced to half, remaining constant in recent years.
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