title: Mortality in anorexia nervosa.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The author's goal was to shed light on the debate regarding the mortality rate over time associated with anorexia nervosa.
  
  
  METHODS
  He conducted a meta-analytic study using weighted linear regression to combine crude mortality proportions from 42 published studies to estimate the mortality associated with anorexia nervosa over time.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The crude rate of mortality due to all causes of death for subjects with anorexia nervosa in these studies was 5.9% (178 deaths in 3,006 subjects). The aggregate mortality rate was estimated to be 0.56% per year, or approximately 5.6% per decade.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The aggregate estimated mortality rate for subjects with anorexia nervosa is substantially greater than that reported for female psychiatric inpatients and for the general population.
authors.affiliation: University Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch School of Medicine, New Zealand.
authors.forename: P F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Sullivan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000401:mortality*; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D009026:Mortality; D012737:Sex Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data