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This cross-sectional study compares the trends in incidence and hospitalization for eating disorders among children and adolescents 5 years before and in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

IMPORTANCETo our knowledge, this is the first pediatric surveillance study of children and adolescents with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID).OBJECTIVES To examine the incidence and age-and sex-specific differences in the clinical presentation of ARFID in children and adolescents in Canada.