Incidence of new onset autoimmune diseases after the start of the treatment for an eating disorder until the end of the study period.

Each participant accounted as maximum one observation per autoimmune disease category (according to the first incident autoimmune disease).Those who already had had an autoimmune disease (Table 2) included in each category, were excluded. In the section of ‘Any autoimmune disease’, those who had had any previous autoimmune disease were excluded. There were no incident cases in pulmonary diseases. CI, Confidence Interval; RR, Risk Ratio.*Statistically significant P-values.