It was last fall when Dr. Alanna Otto really started noticing the change.
At the children s hospital at the University of Michigan, the number of pediatric patients admitted for eating disorder complications soared from about 50, to more than 100, during COVID.
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Normally, the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital at the University of Michigan where she works gets one or two patients admitted a week for complications from eating disorders. But lately, those rates had been soaring.
“One of the things that we ve heard over and over again during the pandemic, is that our patients either began to make changes to what they were eating, or to the way that they were exercising, as a way to try to control their weight or control their body,” Otto said. “Because it felt like everything else was out of control.”
Врачи оценили вероятность усиления инфекции после вакцинации от COVID-19
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Село в Благовещенском районе приходит в себя после мощного паводка
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