{"id":1424,"date":"2019-10-22T23:32:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T23:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmjopen\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2019-10-18T14:49:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T14:49:58","slug":"anorexia-nervosa-among-young-children-in-the-uk-and-ireland-on-the-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmjopen\/2019\/10\/22\/anorexia-nervosa-among-young-children-in-the-uk-and-ireland-on-the-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Anorexia nervosa among young children in the UK and Ireland on the up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Figures suggest rate for 8-12 year olds is around double that of previous estimate in 2006\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bmjopen.bmj.com\/lookup\/doi\/10.1136\/bmjopen-2018-027339\">The annual number of new cases of anorexia nervosa among 8 to 12 year olds in the UK and Ireland is around double that of a previous estimate in 2006, indicates research<\/a> published in the online journal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bmjopen.bmj.com\/\"><em><strong>BMJ Open<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In 2006, the incidence rate of anorexia among 8-12 year olds treated in hospital\/specialist clinics in the UK was approximately 1.5\/100,000 young people, or with the inclusion of \u2018other eating disorders\u2019 that may now be diagnosed as anorexia nervosa, 2.1\/100,000.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This latest analysis indicates that the figure for children in this age bracket is 3.2\/100,000.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This suggests \u201cthat incidence rates for younger children have increased over time,\u201d conclude the researchers, who set out to update available estimates of the annual number of new cases of anorexia in the UK and Ireland among children and teens.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Current estimates are at least 10 years old and mostly derived from GP records, rather than hospital\/specialist clinic, services, which are likely to be a more reliable source of information on how many children and teens have the condition, say the researchers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">They therefore drew on monthly records, submitted by specialist psychiatrists to the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Surveillance System in the UK and Ireland for a period of eight months in 2015.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The data, which cover 8 to 17 year olds, diagnosed for the first time with anorexia nervosa, were used to calculate the annual incidence rate&#8211;the rate of new cases per 100,000 among those in this age bracket.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">During the eight months, 305 new cases were diagnosed, most of them in young women (91%), from England (70%), and of white ethnicity (92%).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Based on these figures, the researchers calculated an annual incidence rate of\u00a0 26\/100,000 for girls and 2\/100,000 for boys, with an overall rate of 14 new cases for every 100,000 children and teens aged 8 to 17.<\/p>\n<p>The rate of new cases rose steadily with age, peaking at the age of 16, with a substantial drop by the age of 17. For girls, this peak occurred at the age of 15, compared with 16 for boys. But rates fell by at least half by the age of 17 for both sexes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Comparable figures for 8-12 year olds were 3.2\/100,000, overall, with rates of 4\/100,000 for 11 year olds, and 12\/100,000\u00a0 for 12 year olds, the calculations indicated.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cFuture research should explore the development of earlier interventions, given evidence of an increase in incidence in young children, suggesting that onset of anorexia nervosa may be starting earlier for some young people than suggested by previous research,\u201d write the researchers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is an observational study, and as such, can\u2019t establish cause. 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