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Anorexia Nervosa and gender

Data in this section are not in line with current research on topic Srobodao84 (talk) 00:18, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have deleted it. From the two citations, one was of inadequate quality, and the other study indicates overeating is the only ED symptom more prevalent in men - not relevant to this article. I was not able to find any supporting citations.

I did move the second reference since it is relevant to indicate AN prevalence in support of the epidemiology opening claim.Darcyisverycute (talk) 09:15, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Student Editors for New Atypical Anorexia Page

Three students (including @kgt11 & @VelenWu) will be building out the redlinked article "Atypical Anorexia" as part of a Georgetown WikiEdu course over the next 3-4 weeks.

What is the status of that project? I am interested in contributing to it. Darcyisverycute (talk) 09:14, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Abbreviation disease

May I suggest that it is not good writing to use abbreviations like AN in an article for a general audience like Wikipedia? This bad habit is found in scientific journal articles, and is best thought of as jargon (and undesirable) in even that writing genre. When publishing in a biology journal, it makes sense to shorten deoxyribonucleic acid to dna - every reader knows the polysyllabic word, and dna has a long history of use. Here, the average Wiki reader thinks in terms of 'anorexia,' and has never seen 'AN' before. 'AN' makes the reader stop and think 'what the heck is that?' before clicking that it's an abbreviation. And AN doesn't even have the saving grace of dna once had that it saved characters back when authors were charged by the character to publish their articles. To sum up, if you mean anorexia - or anorexia nervosa - you should say so. There is no possible benefit to the writer or reader to abbreviate (unless it's the pleasure of the writer to show that he/she knows the insider jargon). Plain, explicit language is always best. MarkinBoston (talk) 22:14, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia's Manual of Style does not forbid such abbreviations as long as the abbreviation is defined earlier in the article. That's quite common in most styles. In this case, I added it to the first sentence. That's sufficient. That being said, there's nothing stopping you from spelling it out when you see it, as long as it doesn't create clunky sentences. Sundayclose (talk) 23:15, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Definition

Not all medical definitions agree on whether or not the trouble can be present at any weight.

The Mayo Clinic gives this definition:

Anorexia (an-o-REK-see-uh) nervosa — often simply called anorexia — is an eating disorder characterized by an abnormally low body weight, an intense fear of gaining weight and a distorted perception of weight.

Medline Plus:

Anorexia is an eating disorder that causes people to weigh less than is considered healthy for their age and height, usually by excessive weight loss.

So let's not assert on the Wiki page that the definition doesn't necessarily relate to actual weight. This is just objectively false. Some definitions do, not all of them, there is not a consensus. Jeanvaljean001 (talk) 20:11, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]