The Público reported at first hand on December 11, a CINTESIS study that warns about the high number of hospitalizations due to eating disorders registered between 2000 and 2014. The newspaper emphasized the case of anorexia nervosa, highlighting that the hospitalizations associated with the disease – which has been connected to 25 deaths – duplicated in the last fifteen years.
The full information, including the declarations of CINTESIS researchers’ Manuel Gonçalves-Pinho and Alberto Freitas (principal investigator), can be read here.