Prevalence
Although EDNOS (formerly called “atypical eating disorder”) was originally introduced in DSM-III to capture unusual cases, it is now the most commonly diagnosed eating disorder. Specifically, EDNOS accounts for approximately 40% to 60% of cases in eating disorder specialty clinics, and up to 90% of eating disorder diagnoses conferred in non-specialty psychiatric settings. The lifetime prevalence of EDNOS in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication, a large epidemiological study that interviewed a nationally representative sample of U.S. residents, was 4.64% among adults and 4.78% among adolescents. EDNOS is an especially prevalent category in populations that have received inadequate research attention such as young children, males, ethnic minorities, non-Western groups, and the elderly.
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