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Eating disorders in women with type I diabetes

In women, young age is associated with peaks in the risk of both eating disorders and diabetes type I. The physicians often presume that the adequate metabolic control of the otherwise lethal disease (type I diabetes) with the delay in complications will oblige every patient to participate in insulin treatment. However, to an adolescent worried over weight gain, the increase in body mass that they fear may result from regulation of serum glucose levels represents a problem very difficult to resolve. As both pathologic entities are characterised by disruption in the physiology of nutrition processes, it is of interest to this paper to review if the diseases represent risk factors for one another, and to review suggested management and outcome of their concomitant occurrence.

type I diabetes; eating disorders; adolescence; young age; female sex

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