Excess mortality associated with eating disorders: population-based cohort study.
Tomisin IwajomoSusan J BondyClaire de OliveiraPatricia ColtonKathryn TrottierPaul KurdyakPublished in: The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science (2020)
Patients with eating disorders diagnosed in hospital settings experience five to seven times higher mortality rates compared with the overall population. There is an urgent need to understand the mortality risk factors to improve health outcomes among individuals with eating disorders.