Persistencia de déficits nutricionales tras la recuperación de peso a corto plazo en adolescentes con anorexia nerviosa.

Malnutrition in anorexia nervosa can be severe but assessment of nutritional status yielded inconsistent and sometimes contradictory results. This may be due to heterogeneity in age and duration of disorder, or to small sample size in some studies (1-4). Among the features most commonly described are anemia and leucopenia (5, 6) which appear to be related to bone marrow changes, though the mechani...