About one in every 20 girls enrolled at high schools in the Tokyo metropolitan area suffers from anorexia nervosa, according to a government-funded survey.
The eating disorder, linked to stress, primarily affects adolescent females.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry-funded survey, which studied subjects in comparison to a healthy growth curve of height and weight in Japanese children, also found a rise in the number of girls suffering from the disorder in recent years.
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