A research group led by Professor Takahiro Nemoto from the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and the Department of Social Implementation Psychiatry at the Toho University Faculty of Medicine analyzed large-scale clinical data to examine the association between the COVID-19 pandemic and the incidence of anorexia nervosa (ICD-10 classification: F50.0) in young patients in Japan. Their study revealed that the number of patients with anorexia nervosa increased after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This research was published in the international academic journal Medicina (Lithuania) on March 3, 2025.
Key Findings
Journal
Medicina (Lithuania) (March 3, 2025)
Title:
Association of COVID-19 Pandemic with Newly Diagnosed Anorexia Nervosa Among Children and Adolescents in Japan
Authors:
Yoshifumi Fukuya, Keitaro Miyamura, Tomoyuki Funatogawa, Taiju Yamaguchi, Naoyuki Katagiri, and Takahiro Nemoto* (*corresponding author)
DOI:
10.3390/medicina61030445
Medicina
Observational study
People
Association of COVID-19 Pandemic with Newly Diagnosed Anorexia Nervosa Among Children and Adolescents in Japan
3-Mar-2025
Takahiro Nemoto belongs to the Department of Psychiatry and Implementation Science, Toho University Faculty of Medicine, and received funds from Nippon Life Insurance Company. Other authors have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have influenced the work reported in this paper.