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Complications of the disease
Anorexia leads to severe biochemical disturbances and impaired a number of organs and systems, threat to human life. The coefficient of mortality, depending on the test 5 to 20%, or even every five people suffering from anorexia can die.
The food body is essential to life sugars, fats, proteins, vitamins, macro-and micronutrients. The use of debilitating diet-restricted food by a person suffering from anorexia are very dangerous. For example, lack the necessary for the proper functioning of heart micronutrients (calcium, potassium, sodium) causes impairment of its work. Spada resistance - no proteins, sugars and fats your body can not develop antibodies and immune cells, can not build other cells, tissues and organs. There is no energy needed for life - to get her body burns existing energy resources, leading to samowyniszczenia shortly. In short, lack of food, lack of energy and materials needed for living organism.
Some patients, unfortunately, people die. The most frequent causes of death of people suffering from anorexia are disorders of cardiovascular diseases, infections (no resistance) and suicide (psychological factor). Somatic complications disappear during treatment or after a normal body weight.
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