Osteoporosis in anorexia nervosa.

Osteoporosis is common in anorexia nervosa. It places these patients at increased lifetime risk for fractures. Bone loss may never recover completely even once weight is restored.

Interpreting the complete blood count in anorexia nervosa.

Anemia, leukopenia and thrombocytopenia are frequent complications of anorexia nervosa. The complete blood count provides useful information to diagnose and characterize these findings. Anemia tends to be normocytic and normochromic.

Intimate partner violence in women hospitalized on an internal medicine service: prevalence and relationship to responses to the review of systems.

Background: Although intimate partner violence is common, the prevalence in patients hospitalized on internal medicine services and whether it is associated with numerous positive responses to the review of systems are not known.

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of intimate partner violence in women hospitalized on an internal medicine service and to determine whether it is associated with the number or types of positive responses to the review of systems.

Design: This was a prospective, cross-sectional survey.