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Risk Factors
A risk factor increases your chance of getting a disease or condition. Risk factors for anorexia include the following:
- Sex: female
- Age: adolescence or early adulthood
- Low self-esteem
- Feelings of helplessness
- Perfectionism
- Fear of becoming overweight
- Familial pressure to be thin
- Families that are overprotective, rigid, not involved, or in conflict
- Family history of eating disorders
- Emotional stress
- Mood disorders, such as depression or generalized anxiety disorder
- Personality disorders
- Susceptibility to social and fashion trends emphasizing or glamorizing thinness
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