Could emotional development milestones be a good predictor of developing anorexia?

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UK researchers suggest that a failure to meet emotional developmental milestones between the ages of three and seven could confer an increased risk for broad anorexia nervosa. These milestones, widely regarded as a means of tracking your child's development against other kids their age, were observed for close to 16,000 children. The team says that poor emotional regulation skills at age three wasn't associated with the increased risk, but instead a lack of improvement across childhood came with the increased associative risk.

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conference: JAMA Psychiatry

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Organisation/s: University College London, UK

Funder: This study was supported by Sir HenryWellcome fellowship 209196/Z/17/Z (Dr Solmi) and grant 211163/Z/18/Z (Dr Srinivasan) from theWellcome Trust; grants MR/S019707 (Dr Harrison) and MR/S020292/1 (DrsWarne and Bould) from the Medical Research Council/Medical Research Foundation; and the University College of London Hospital National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre. The Millennium Cohort Study is funded primarily by the UK Economic and Social Research Council with cofunding by a consortium of UK government departments.

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