Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of study participants

	Group; mean ± SD
Characteristic	Anorexia nervosa, n = 25	Control, n = 25	p value
Age, yr	20.32 ± 2.23	21.28 ± 2.11	0.12
BMI	16.28 ± 0.93	21.13 ± 2.27	< 0.001
BDI	26.88 ± 13.06	7.76 ± 7.33	< 0.001
Duration of illness, yr	4.14 ± 3.54	—	—

BDI = Beck Depression Inventory; BMI = body mass index; SD = standard deviation.