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@entity1 @entity1017 @entity1278
BACKGROUND: Comparisons were made between two groups of anorectic @entity1 , 'non-white' and 'white', on a variety of clinical and social characteristics. METHOD: The study is based on a 34-year long database (1960-93) associated with a national tertiary referral centre. Thirty-six non-white @entity1 meeting DSM-III-R criteria for @entity1278 ( @entity1278 ) and five with 'partial syndrome' are compared with a white group comprising 944 @entity1 with full syndrome. RESULTS: The main finding is clinical similarity between the two groups, extending to social class and pathological patterns of family relationship. The non-whites are shorter in stature (P = 0.004) and report earlier menarche (P = 0.004); they are younger at presentation (P < 0.001), somewhat less emaciated, and practice veganism slightly more commonly; they less often acknowledge sensitivity to 'fatness' (P < 0.003). This sensitivity was exposed later whenever treatment involved substantial @entity1017 . The proportion of non-white cases accepted for assessment has not changed in respect of year of onset (around 6%) for the last 20 years, or year of presentation (around 6-7%) over the last 15 years. There was a tendency for non-white @entity1 to be referred earlier in their illness. CONCLUSIONS: The clinical and background profiles of non-white and white anorectics are generally similar. The numbers arising and presenting have not changed recently. Non-white @entity1 apparently have as ready access as white @entity1 to assessment and treatment by us.
