An adequate understanding of relevant risk factors, symptoms and signs may allow the physician to prevent the onset of an eating disorder in some patients or to ...NCBISkiptomaincontentSkiptonavigationResourcesHowToAboutNCBIAccesskeysMyNCBISignintoNCBISignOutTryoutPMCLabsandtelluswhatyouthink.LearnMore.JournalListCanFamPhysicianv.33;1987JanPMC2218292CanFamPhysician.1987Jan;33:145–149.PMCID:PMC2218292PMID:21267347PerspectivesonthePreventionofAnorexiaNervosaandBulimiaHowardSteiger,PierreLeichner,andA.MissaghGhadirianCopyrightandLicenseinformationDisclaimerCopyrightnoticeAbstractAmpleevidencesuggestsarisingincidenceofanorexianervosaandbulimiaoverthepastfewdecades.Correspondingly,medicalknowledgeabouttheetiology,symptomatologyandtreatmentoftheseeatingdisordershasincreased.Oftenthefrontlinehealth-careworkerswhotreatthesedisorders,familyphysiciansareinakeypositionforearlydetectionandpreventionoftheseeatingdisorders.Anadequateunderstandingofrelevantriskfactors,symptomsandsignsmayallowthephysiciantopreventtheonsetofaneatingdisorderinsomepatientsortominimizetheseverityoftheillnessinothers.FulltextFulltextisavailableasascannedcopyoftheoriginalprintversion.Getaprintablecopy(PDFfile)ofthecompletearticle(1.1M),orclickonapageimagebelowtobrowsepagebypage.LinkstoPubMedarealsoavailableforSelectedReferences. 145146147148149 SelectedReferencesThesereferencesareinPubMed.Thismaynotbethecompletelistofreferencesfromthisarticle.AbrahamSF,MiraM,BeumontPJ,SowerbuttsTD,Llewellyn-JonesD.Eatingbehavioursamongyoungwomen.MedJAust.1983Sep3;2(5):225–228.[PubMed][GoogleScholar]ButtonEJ,WhitehouseA.Subclinicalanorexianervosa.PsycholMed.1981Aug;11(3):509–516.[PubMed][GoogleScholar]HalmiKA,FalkJR,SchwartzE.Binge-eatingandvomiting:asurveyofacollegepopulation.PsycholMed.1981Nov;11(4):697–706.[PubMed][GoogleScholar]BeumontPJ,GeorgeGC,SmartDE."Dieters"and"vomitersandpurgers"inanorexianervosa.PsycholMed.1976Nov;6(4):617–622.[PubMed][GoogleScholar]SwiftWJ,AndrewsD,BarklageNE.Therelationshipbetweenaffectivedi