Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of eating disorder patients treated in the specialized residential settings in Belgium.

Introduction: Epidemiologic information on sociodemographic and clinical characteristics in eating disorders in Western European countries are scarce.

Purpose: In this study, we report demographic and clinical characteristics of eating disorder (ED) patients undergoing treatment in five specialized ED centers in Flanders (Belgium).

Method: Data from 642 ED patients were collected by means of a structured questionnaire.

Forearm bone mineralization in recently diagnosed female adolescents with a premenarchal onset of anorexia nervosa.

Objective: Data available on bone mineralization by peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) in adolescents with an early onset anorexia nervosa (AN) is limited. We investigated whether a disturbed bone mineralization can be observed at the distal radius in recently diagnosed female adolescents with AN and a premenarchal onset of this disease.

Method: Twenty-four premenarchal patients with AN and 22 healthy females which were age and height matched, were selected from our reference database; both groups underwent a pQCT bone assessment at the distal radius of the nondominant arm.