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Gender, ethnic differences may hamper eating disorder diagnosis

Eating disorders may be overlooked in some groups -- boys and some ethnicities -- by physicians accustomed to diagnosing the condition in white teenage girls, say researchers at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and the Stanford University School of Medicine.

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