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A 20-year-old woman with a history of AN presented with bradycardia, weariness, and malaise in addition to an incidentally very high ferritin level. The symptoms disappeared spontaneously after a short admission. There were no signs suggestive of systemic, hematological, or malignant disease causing the very high concentration of ferritin. Her body weight was in decline, leading up to admission, but did initially increase after discharge accompanied by declining ferritin concentration. However, a clear association between ferritin dynamics and weight changes or physical activity was not identified and neither were other causes of the hyperferritinemia. Around one in four patients with AN have increased ferritin concentrations. Our case represents the highest ferritin concentration reported in a patient with AN without other underlying causes or comorbidities.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Learning points<\/jats:title>\n \n \n Perturbed iron metabolism is frequent in restrictive type anorexia nervosa but incompletely understood.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:list-item>\n \n Altered ferritin in anorexia nervosa may be linked to nutritional status.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:list-item>\n <\/jats:list>\n <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1530\/edm-22-0405","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,23]],"date-time":"2023-03-23T11:13:52Z","timestamp":1679570032000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1530\/crossmarkpolicy-2","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Extreme hyperferritinemia in restrictive type anorexia nervosa"],"prefix":"10.1530","volume":"2023","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6551-3606","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Christine Hvolby","family":"Amanoal","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, Viborg Regional Hospital, Denmark"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lene Kongsgaard","family":"Nielsen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, Viborg Regional Hospital, Denmark"},{"name":"Research Unit for Multimorbidity, Viborg Regional Hospital, Denmark"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0522-0320","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Henrik Holm","family":"Thomsen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, Viborg Regional Hospital, Denmark"},{"name":"Research Unit for Multimorbidity, Viborg Regional Hospital, Denmark"},{"name":"Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"416","reference":[{"key":"bib1","series-title":"American Journal of Psychiatry","first-page":"1073","article-title":"Mortality in anorexia nervosa","volume":"152","author":"Sullivan","year":"1995","unstructured":"Sullivan PF. 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