Increased Risk For Eating Disorders Found In Adolescent Girls With ADHD

Girls with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder stand a substantially greater risk of developing eating disorders in adolescence than girls without ADHD, a new study has found."Adolescent girls with ADHD frequently develop body-image dissatisfaction and may go through repeating cycles of binge eating and purging behaviors that are common in bulimia nervosa, " said University of Virginia psychologist Amori Yee Mikami, who led the study. ...

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