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Anorexia nervosa (AN) largely affects adolescent girls and young women, and, not surprisingly, has reproductive consequences: Women in the throes of active disease are usually anovulatory and are thus unable to become pregnant. However, pregnancy is not uncommon during the recovery period. A number of previous studies have reported increased rates of preterm birth and other complications following AN, whereas others have shown more favorable outcomes. In this Swedish study, the investigators assessed pregnancy and delivery outcomes of 1000 primiparas previously hospitalized for AN compared with birth outcomes in 827,582 women without histories of AN. This is by far the largest such sample to be identified.
Compared with the general populatio…