When assessing the adolescent with anorexia, what would the nurse expect to find?
A) Tachycardia
B) Hypertension
C) Fever
D) Sparse body hair
Ans: D
An adolescent with anorexia often exhibits a low body temperature; bradycardia; and hypotension; as well as soft, sparse body hair and thinning scalp hair.
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