title: Childhood Anorexia Nervosa Compared with Low Weight Food Intake Disorder Without Weight and Shape-Related Psychopathology: A Retrospective Study of 102 Patients.
abstract: To compare the clinical presentation of children with anorexia nervosa (AN group) with that of children with low-weight food intake disorder without weight and shape-related psychopathology (non-AN group).
  
  
  
  Medical and psychiatric data were obtained from the case records of a consecutive series of 102 children with an eating disorder and a pronounced low weight who were below the age of 13 at the start of treatment.
  
  
  
  Fifty-eight patients constituted the AN group, and 44 constituted the non-AN group. The non-AN group was younger and had a longer duration of symptoms than the AN group. The non-AN group also had a lower maximum premorbid weight and shorter stature. There were no differences in medical severity, but the AN group had more psychiatric treatment.
  
  
  
  The non-AN group seems to have a medically equally severe disorder as the AN group, but is less often detected and properly treated. Copyright © 2016 The Authors European Eating Disorders Review published by Eating Disorders Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
authors.affiliation: Skånevård Sund, Child and adolescent Psychiatry, Eating Disorders Centre Lund, Sweden.|Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden.
authors.forename: Ulf
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Wallin
authors.affiliation: Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Råstam
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D004435:Eating / Q000523:psychology*; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011599:Psychopathology; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013851:Thinness
keywords: anorexia nervosa; child; course; eating disorders; restrictive eating