According to a new report from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the number of Americans being hospitalized due to eating disorders and related complications increased between 1999 and 2006. Hospitalizations increased most dramatically for children under the age of 12 (by 119 percent). Patients between the ages of 45 and 64 showed the next most dramatic increase at 48 percent. Hospitalizations for anorexia remained stable during the same time period, while admissions for bulimia decreased by 7 percent. Hospitalizations for men increased by 37 percent. The report also noted that hospitalizations for rare eating disorders such as pica (the compulsive consumption of non-edible substances such as clay) and anxiety-related (psychogenic) vomiting increased by 38 percent. (Source: www.ahrq.gov)

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