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Irreversibility of cardiac autonomic dysfunction in female adolescents diagnosed with anorexia nervosa after short- and long-term weight gain
World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 05/21/09

Lachish M et al. - Preliminary findings suggest that female adolescent AN inpatients may have a cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction in the form of vagal abnormality present not only in malnourished patients, but also persisting following short-term and long-term weight restoration.

• HRV parameters were assessed in female adolescent AN inpatients in the malnourished phase at admission, at discharge when achieving weight restoration, and 24-36 months after discharge, when considered remitted.
• Nineteen normal-weight female controls were similarly assessed.

• Spectral analysis of HRV was done with the fast Fourier transform algorithm.
• At admission and discharge, patients underwent routine laboratory examinations and responded to questionnaires assessing eating-related preoccupations, behaviors, and personality attributes, depression and anxiety.
• Compared with the controls, AN patients had significantly lower heart-rate and HRV, lower total power and low frequency components, elevated high frequency components, and decreased low to high frequency power ratio as assessed with the power spectral analysis at all three evaluation points.
• Disturbances were not correlated with the baseline laboratory and psychometric measures.

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