de la Serna de Pedro I, Moreno Oliver I, Viñas Pifarre R
Actas Luso Esp Neurol Psiquiatr Cienc Afines. 1990 Sep-Oct;18(5):332-8.
A comparative study was made of anorexia nervosa in males and females that were hospitalized at the psychiatric unit of Ramon y Cajal Hospital during a continuous period of ten years. The total number of patients was 63: 10 males and 53 females. A special emphasis is made in the symptoms and the age of the patients at the onset of the illness. A comparison between symptomatology in both groups is made at the state of illness as well as their premorbid personality. The distinctive evolutions, prognosis and the initial pathology which comes to the psychiatrist are evaluated, this one shows a very different pattern in men and women. Our results suggest the existence of anorexia nervosa in men and not as a secondary psychiatric disorder.
