Eating Disorders: A Guide to Medical Care and Complications

Resource Type

Book - Parent

Description

"Mehler (medicine, U. of Colorado Health Sciences Center) and Andersen (psychiatry, U. of Iowa College of Medicine) present 15 papers which offer clinically based approach to the care of medical symptomatology of patients with eating disorders. For each chapter, specific complications are examined along with a relevant case study that illustrates the nature of the problem. Also approaches to diagnoses and treatments are discussed. Topics include gastrointestinal complaints in patients with eating disorders, nutritional rehabilitation for anorexics, cardiovascular risk, metabolic abnormalities, and the pharmacologic treatment of obesity." -From Book News Inc.

Ages

All Ages

Age Groups

Adulthood (22+)

Languages

English

ISBN

0801862779

Authors

Philip S. Mehler MD, Arnold E. Andersen MD

Publication

1999 Johns Hopkins University Press; 1st edition

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