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Mental Disorders > Feeding and Eating Disorders > Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder

Preferred term

Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • An eating or feeding disturbance (e.g., apparent lack of interest in eating or food; avoidance based on the sensory characteristics of food; concern about aversive consequences of eating) as manifested by persistent failure to meet appropriate nutritional and/or energy needs associated with one (or more) of the following: significant weight loss (or failure to achieve expected weight gain or faltering growth in children); significant nutritional deficiency; dependence on enteral feeding or oral nutritional supplements; or marked interference with psychosocial functioning. (from DSM-V)

Entry terms

  • ARFID
  • Food Neophobia

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-CX96TB7M-S

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