The youngest are hit hardest: The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hospitalization rate for children, adolescents, and young adults with anorexia nervosa in a large German representative sample.

There was a highly significant increase of 40% (relative risk (RR): 1.4; [1.27, 1.55]; p < 0.0001) in admission rates in the female children’s and the adolescents’ group (RR:1.32; [1.24, 1.41]; p< 0.0001) between the pre-COVID-19 and peri-COVID-19 periods in 2019 and 2021, respectively.

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Correspondingly, an increasing trend in admission rates was observed for patients below the age of 15 years in England [ 22 ] and Germany [ 26 ].

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