Dr. Kapphahn is with the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, California.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2021 Dec;60(12):1457-1458. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2021.04.004. Epub 2021 Apr 20.
Tam et al. take a rigorous look at the changes in plasma lipids that occur during the early part of the refeeding process in female patients, primarily adolescent girls and young women, with anorexia nervosa (AN). Their detailed analyses are timely, as investigators seek to develop refeeding protocols that are safe and effective, while reducing duration of illness, cost of treatment, and time in higher levels of care for patients with AN, a physically and mentally disabling disease that has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. The article by Tam and colleagues is important in what it examines. However, it is also important to note what it does not examine, so that other investigators may be inspired to explore and illuminate other aspects of the refeeding process and associated long-term outcomes.
谭等人对神经性厌食症（AN）女性患者，主要是青少年女孩和年轻女性，在重新进食早期血浆脂质变化进行了严格的观察。他们的详细分析是及时的，因为研究人员正在寻求开发既安全又有效的喂养方案，同时减少 AN 患者的疾病持续时间、治疗成本和高级别护理时间，AN 是一种身心障碍疾病，其死亡率高于任何其他精神疾病。谭及其同事的这篇文章很重要，因为它研究了这一问题。然而，同样重要的是要注意到它没有研究的方面，以便其他研究人员可以受到启发，探索和阐明喂养过程和相关长期结果的其他方面。
