Most girls who develop anorexia before they begin to menstruate do not reach their full potential for height, even if they eventually return to normal eating patterns, US researchers report.
“To our knowledge, there are no prospective longitudinal studies that have evaluated growth velocity and near final adult height in anorexia nervosa,” study author Dr. Eleni Lantzouni and colleagues, from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, note.
The researchers found that among 16 girls who developed anorexia before puberty, 13 never reached their genetic potential for height, calculated according to the height of their parents. On average, the girls were 1.5 inches shorter than they could have been.
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