NCT05133037

AN/BN Risk Factors Study

Active, enrolled Last updated 28 August 2025

What this trial tests

trial testing GE MR Scanner in Eating Disorders in 50 participants. Participants enrolled and being followed up; not accepting new ones.

Timeline

23 November 2021

Primary endpoint
6 June 2025

26 May 2029

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Stanford University
Status	Active, enrolled
Study type	OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment	50
Start date	23 November 2021
Primary completion	6 June 2025
Estimated completion	26 May 2029
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• GE MR Scanner

Conditions studied

• Eating Disorders — all drugs for Eating Disorders →

Sponsor

Stanford University

Who can join

Adults 12 to 16, female only, with Eating Disorders. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Across the United States, thousands of children and adolescents suffer from eating disorders. Among young women alone, an estimated 2 to 4 percent are dealing with anorexia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa also has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder and produces a six-fold increased risk for death. Unfortunately, study shows that current treatments are only successful with 25 percent of patients and no eating disorder prevention program has been found to reduce future onset of anorexia nervosa. The goal of this study is to conduct a highly innovative pilot study that will identify risk factors that predict future onset of anorexia nervosa and investigate how the risk processes for anorexia nervosa are different from the risk processes for bulimia nervosa. The proposed pilot study will:

* Compare 30 healthy adolescent girls at high risk for anorexia nervosa to 30 healthy adolescent girls at high risk for bulimia nervosa, and 30 healthy adolescent girls at low risk for eating disorder in an effort to document risk processes that are present in early adolescence before anorexia nervosa typically emerges.
* Test whether elevations in the hypothesized risk factors predict future onset of anorexia nervosa over a four-year follow-up.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.