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Genetic & environmental risk factors can cause anorexia

 

AIMAN INAM

 

NEW YORK: In the latest study, published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, researchers have discovered that a mishmash of hereditary and ecological menace aspects can generate the obsessive limitation of food ingestion i.e. anorexia in humans.

The combination of genetic, natural, emotional, and sociocultural variables augments the hazard of anorexia. However, the results possibly will facilitate to discover cure for the disease, study said.

Lori Zeltser from Columbia University held: “This experiment not only shows us the most important factors that contribute to the onset of anorexia, it is also helping us to identify signaling pathways in the brain that ultimately drive this potentially fatal eating disorder.”

Anorexia is not curable and has the uppermost fatality rate of any psychiatric syndrome i.e. 8 to 15 per cent.

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.