India, March 4 -- Individuals with eating disorders who have low income are frequently misdiagnosed and lack adequate access to appropriate therapy, according to researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Their paper, published in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist on Feb. 19, identified the barriers to care that come with having low income and offered guidelines on how therapists can make accommodations for these patients to improve diagnoses and access to treatment.

Approximately 30 million people in the United States experience an eating disorder, which can cause many medical complications and increase the risk of early death. Though people of all income levels and backg...