ea0038s9.1 | The endocrinology of the thin (Supported by <emphasis role="italic">Endocrine Connections</emphasis>) | SFEBES2015
Miller Karen
Anorexia nervosa is a common psychiatric disease, with a prevalence of 12% of college-aged women, characterized by chronic starvation. Nutritional deprivation is complicated by serious and multi-axis endocrine dysregulation. This includes abnormalities in GnRH secretion resulting in hypothalamic amenorrhea, with resultant estrogen and androgen deficiency, which is usually but not always reversible with weight and psychiatric recovery. GH resistance at the level of the li...