Am J Psychiatry 1985; 142:1495-1497
Copyright © 1985 by American Psychiatric Association
Depressive disorders in relatives of anorexia nervosa patients with and without a current episode of nonbipolar major depression
J Biederman, T Rivinus, K Kemper, D Hamilton, J MacFadyen and J Harmatz
The first-degree relatives of anorexia nervosa patients with current
nonbipolar major depression had a higher rate of depression than the
relatives of anorexic patients without current depression, whose rate was
similar to that for relatives of normal control subjects.