Doctors states that schizophrenia and depression are not the mental disorders that have the highest mortality rate; rather, they point out that among people who have this disorder, 20% of them yield to the illness. Therefore, it is helpful if there are ways to predict the risk factors of having eating disorders and who will likely develop it.
According to the statistics, almost 90% of those who have bulimia, anorexia, or both, are young women in their 20’s and teens. When they reach adolescence, their eating disorders have fully developed. Colleges in America reported that more than 40% of students have any of the three disorders in their florid or sub clinical form.
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