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

Preferred term

Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • ARFID
  • Food Neophobia
  • Food Neophobias
  • Neophobia, Food

Scope note

  • 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)

History note

  • 2020

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000080146

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