Marco Solmi, Francesco Monaco, Mikkel Højlund, Alessio M Monteleone, Mike Trott, Joseph Firth, Marco Carfagno, Melissa Eaton, Marco De Toffol, Mariantonietta Vergine, Paolo Meneguzzo, Enrico Collantoni, Davide Gallicchio, Brendon Stubbs, Anna Girardi, Paolo Busetto, Angela Favaro, Andre F Carvalho, Hans-Christoph Steinhausen, Christoph U Correll
Eating disorders (EDs) are known to be associated with high mortality and often chronic and severe course, but a recent comprehensive systematic review of their outcomes is currently missing. In the present systematic review and meta-analysis, we examined cohort studies and clinical trials published between 1980 and 2021 that reported, for DSM/ICD-defined EDs, overall ED outcomes (i.e., recovery, improvement and relapse, all-cause and ED-related hospitalization, and chronicity); the same outcomes related to purging, binge eating and body weight status; as well as mortality...
February 2024: World Psychiatry: Official Journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)