Ten-year follow-up of adolescent-onset anorexia nervosa: physical health and neurodevelopment

To study the development of physical health and some neuromotor functions i n anorexia nervosa (AN) 51 individuals (48 females, three males) with a mea n AW onset of 14 years, recruited after community screening, were followed prospectively together with 51 age-, sex-, and school-matched individuals w ithout AN (controls), About 10 years after AN onset;, all individuals were examined in respect of physical health and neurodevelopment, There were no deaths. Weight and height had normalised, except in three participants with persistent AN. Significantly more participants with AN had a physical comp laint/disorder, including hirsutism, This might be a long-term complication in weight restored AN. Dysdiadochokinesis occurred almost exclusively amon g individuals with former AN in accordance with our previous studies.