How to define anorectic weight?
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Jens Oehlschlรคgel-Akiyoshi; Peter Malewski; Jennifer Mahon
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Different deยฎnitions of weight criteria for the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa have been introduced, and all of them are problematic. For example, ICD-10 (World Health Organization, 1992) suggests using 17.5 BMI instead of 85 per cent expected weight. It is shown that any weight-for-height indices (i