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==General== | ==General== | ||
Causes of starvation: | |||
*Psychiatric: | |||
**Dementia. | |||
**Anorexia nervosa. | |||
**Disorder with delusions, e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder - belief one is being poisoned. | |||
*Organic disease: | |||
**Malignancy, e.g. esophageal carcinoma. | |||
**Causes of malabsorption. | |||
**Vomiting. | |||
*Other: | |||
**Young age (cannot feed themself). | |||
**Disability/trauma - person falls and cannot get up, help not available. | |||
Associations - serous fat atrophy:<ref name=pmid19567708/> | Associations - serous fat atrophy:<ref name=pmid19567708/> | ||
*Acute febrile states. | *Acute febrile states. | ||