Super skinny and sick
According to a recent study, in addition to being overweight, anorexia can also have a harmful effect on the heart. The reasons.
Published today at 5:30 am
At the expense of health: Anorexics have a distorted self-perception – and ignore the dangers.
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It has long been known that deposits of cholesterol in the arteries, which can lead to blockages and thus a heart attack, are usually associated with being overweight. But the fact that even with anorexia the cholesterol balance in the body can change in such a way that there is a risk of dangerous cardiovascular diseases is one new finding of a study group around the Austrian scientist Julia Stadler.
A total of 3.5 percent of the Swiss population are affected by an eating disorder at least once in their lives.