What type of disease is anorexia nervosa classified as?
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Answer: B
Anorexia nervosa is classified as a psychiatric disease.
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder listed in the psychiatric classifications (DSM-5 and ICD). Its core features are restriction of food intake leading to a markedly low body weight, an intense fear of gaining weight, and a distorted perception of body shape.
It produces endocrine and metabolic effects, such as amenorrhoea and electrolyte disturbances, but these are consequences of starvation, not the cause. Genes may raise the risk, but it is not a genetic disease in the sense of being caused by a single inherited defect.
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