Mortality in Concurrent Type 1 Diabetes and Anorexia Nervosa
- James D. Walker, MD1,
- Robert J. Young, MD2,
- Jill Little, MD3 and
- Judith M. Steel, MD4
- 1Royal Infirmary, Diabetes, Edinburgh, U.K.
- 2Hope Hospital, Diabetes, Salford, Manchester, U.K.
- 3Western General Hospital, Diabetes, Edinburgh, U.K.
- 4Victoria Hospital, Diabetes, Kirkcady, Fife, U.K.
We would like to add our experience of the clinical course and prognosis in patients with type 1 diabetes and eating disorders to that reported by Nielsen et al. (1) who reported a standardized mortality ratio of 14.5 in female patients with a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes and anorexia nervosa.
We performed a 12-year follow-up of a cohort of 14 women with type 1 diabetes and eating disorders (12 with anorexia nervosa) originally …
