Anorexic girls have increased bone density after physiological estrogen treatment
Sunday, June 5, 2011 - 01:30
in Health & Medicine
Estrogen therapy improves low bone density due to anorexia nervosa in teenage girls with the disease when given as a patch or as a low oral dose that is physiological (close to the form or amount of estrogen the body makes naturally). These results of a new study are being presented Monday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston.