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Orthorexia nervosa and comorbid depression successfully treated with mirtazapine: a case report.
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- An integrative model as a step toward increasing the awareness of eating disorders in the general population.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- "In-between orthorexia" profile: the co-occurrence of pathological and healthy orthorexia among male and female non-clinical adolescents.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Orthorexia Nervosa in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Literature Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- The effect of the information-motivation-behavioral skills (IMB) model variables on orthorexia nervosa behaviors of pregnant women.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
- Low self-esteem predicts orthorexia nervosa, mediated by spiritual attitudes among frequent exercisers.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Article
- Psychometric evaluation of the French version of the Düsseldorfer Orthorexia Skala (DOS) and prevalence of orthorexia nervosa among university students.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Article
- Pathways to orthorexia nervosa: a case series discussion.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Article
- Prevalence and Characteristics of Orthorectic Disorders in Adolescence and Young People: Polish Preliminary Studies.Nutrients · 2021Article
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- Perspective: Classifying Orthorexia Nervosa as a New Mental Illness-Much Discussion, Little Evidence.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020Review
- Relationship between Psychosocial Impairment, Food Choice Motives, and Orthorexic Behaviors among Polish Adults.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Shedding light upon various tools to assess orthorexia nervosa: a critical literature review with a systematic search.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2019Review
- Association between orthorexia nervosa, eating attitudes and anxiety among medical students in Lebanese universities: results of a cross-sectional study.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2019Article
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Abstract
Orthorexia nervosa (ON) is a recently proposed eating disordered behaviour characterized by an obsessional or exaggerated fixation on healthy eating. The published literature is scarce regarding its classification, clinical presentation, management and long-term outcomes. Herein, we present the clinical and follow-up findings of an 18-year-old woman with ON comorbid with depression, successfully treated with mirtazapine. The patient had a 12-month history of obsessional behaviours for "healthy food", characterized by suppression of sugar and fat from her diet, tightly counted meal calorie content, eating only self-made meals, avoidance of eating in public, unacceptance of other person's opinions on diet, social isolation and a weight loss of 15 kg (body mass index of 16.2 kg/m
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