title: [Anorexia nervosa as differential diagnosis in underweight patients].
abstract: Anorexia nervosa is a differential diagnosis in underweight patients, especially in young underweight women. Diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa are self-induced weight loss due to restrictive eating or purging behaviour, intense fear of gaining weight and disturbance in the way in which one`s shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight on self-evaluation and persistent lack of recognition of the seriousness of the current low body weight. Anorexia nervosa is associated with numerous medical complications.
authors.forename: Nora
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rapps
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Skoda
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zipfel
mesh_terms: D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013851:Thinness