How old is the typical bulimia sufferer?

How old is the typical bulimia sufferer?

Barton Blinder, MD (Clinical Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry) gives expert video advice on: How old is the typical bulimia sufferer?; Who is most at risk for bulimia?; What is the mortality rate for bulimia? and more...

Patients with bulimia, usually the onset are somewhere in the 13 and 14 year old range, all the way up to usually around age 32. So we see bulimia nervosa starting just about with the onset of puberty, going into young adulthood, and during the childbearing years. The highest frequency would be somewhere between the ages of 13 and 19; in that age range. But also, the onset can be between those ages, but the symptoms may persist all the way into the college age years, and into the twenties and all the way up to the early thirties.