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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Kiran Singh, M.D. [2]

Risk factors

• Occupations and avocations that encourage thinness

• Modeling
• Elite athletics

• First-degree biological relatives of individuals with the disorder.
• Monozygotic twins
• Trying to be perfect or overly focused on rules
• Being more worried about, or paying more attention to weight and shape
• Having eating problems during infancy or early childhood
• Certain social or cultural ideas about health and beauty
• Having a negative self-image
• Having an anxiety disorder as a child
• A recent epidemiological study of 989,871 Swedish residents indicated that gender, ethnicity and socio-economic status were large influences on the chance of developing anorexia, with those with non-European parents among the least likely to be diagnosed with the condition, and those in wealthy, white families being most at risk.