OCD, Anxiety Linked to Risk of Eating Disorders
New research suggests physicians and other health workers should be more aware of the high risk of eating disorders among people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and other anxiety disorders.
According to new the research presented at the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ 2009 Annual Meeting (UK), as many as one in five people with OCD could also have some form of disordered eating. In addition, disordered eating may occur in as many as one in three patients with other anxiety disorders.