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Patients with anorexia nervosa had significantly lower heart rates (mean case\u2013control difference: \u221220 \u00b1 17 beats per minute), lower R in V6(\u22122.6 \u00b1 5.5 mm), longer QRS interval (+.004 \u00b1 .010 seconds), shorter mean QTc (\u2212.0136 \u00b1 .033 seconds) and lesser QTc dispersion (\u2212.010 \u00b1 .031 seconds). The bulimia nervosa group had slightly longer mean QTc (.019 \u00b1 .020 seconds), with no significant case\u2013control differences in the eating disorder not otherwise specified group.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion.<\/jats:title><jats:p>Electrocardiographic findings are abnormal in adolescents with anorexia nervosa but not in adolescents with bulimia nervosa or eating disorder not otherwise specified.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1542\/peds.105.5.1100","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2004,8,13]],"date-time":"2004-08-13T23:50:41Z","timestamp":1092441041000},"page":"1100-1105","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":69,"title":["Electrocardiographic Findings in Adolescents With Eating Disorders"],"prefix":"10.1542","volume":"105","author":[{"given":"Constadina","family":"Panagiotopoulos","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1From the Divisions of Adolescent Medicine and Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick 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