Name: Saloni Jain, Anjana Kumari
Country: India

Year: 2020
Volume: Volume-5, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 9-13

Anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate among all psychiatric illnesses, as it can result in significant psychopathology along with life-threatening medical complications, which will be discussed in this review paper. This illness often results in people having a distorted image of their bodies. These are later followed by laxative abuse, self- induced vomiting, starvation, over exercising and so on; which subsequently manifests into a full-blown Eating Disorder (ED). According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 Eating Disorders may be classified into anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), Binge Eating Disorder (BED) and many more. Many studies on the prevalence of ED have been conducted in different countries thus far. Yet, Indian studies are very limited in number or incomplete due to the lack of a benchmark diagnostic technique for psychiatrists to be employed on the Indian population for the detection of ED. However, It has been observed that Anorexia nervosa has the most noteworthy death rate of any mental issue.1 This has a pervasiveness of about 0.3% in young ladies. It is more than twice as basic in high school females, with an approximate age of beginning of 15 years; 80-90% of patients with anorexia are female. Anorexia is the most widely recognized reason for weight dropping in young ladies and of admission to children and juvenile emergency clinic