tions (Keel and Klump, 2003). The lifetime prevalence of anorexia nervosa in Korea does not differ from that of New Haven or St. Louis. A recent study of anorexia nervosa in Iran reported a lifetime prevalence higher than the lifetime prevalence in the DSM-IV-TR and the incidence and prevalence in Hong Kong and similar to those reported in Western nations.
In the United States, anorexia nervosa occurs at a rate of about 1 in every 100-200 females in late adolescence or early adulthood (Levey, Williams-Wilson and Corfman, 2030). Subthreshold cases of the disorder are seen more frequently. Rates of anorexia nervosa are similar in all developed countries with high economic status and the disorder is far more prevalent in those countries with industrialized societies where food is plentiful and thinness is considered an attractive female feature. Gerald Russell notes that there has been a change in the disorder over the last 30 to 50 years, with the psychological context of anorexia nervosa shifting to a dread of fa
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