Young British men with an eating disorder are not getting the help and support they need because of a perceptions about a ‘women’s illness’, reports [s]BBC News[/s]. A study by tesearchers from the [b]University of Oxford[/b] and [b]University of Glasgow[/b] suggests that men are ‘under-diagnosed, under-treated and under-researched’ for anorexia and other eating disorders, despite making up about a quarter of cases. And, researchers say in [s]British Medical Journal Open[/s], part of the problem was that the men themselves were unaware of eating disorder symptoms.
[link url=http://www.bbc.com/news/health-26935687]Full BBC News report[/link]
[link url=http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/4/4/e004342.short?g=w_open_current_tab]BMJ Open bstract[/link]