“…Our ED patients also responded in a similar way, but with specific patterns of response: While in AN patients the decrease in the number of lymphocytes was similar to that in the HC, the process was three to four times more intense in the BN patients. We consider this discordance perhaps to be due to the existence of differences in the reactivity to stress of the HPA and SAM axes in AN and BN (Garaci et al, 2019; A. M. Monteleone et al, 2015, 2017; P. Monteleone et al, 2011, 2012, 2014; Nagata, Yamada, Iketani, & Kiriike, 2006; Paszynska et al, 2016; Pirke et al, 1992; Vaz‐Leal, Rodríguez‐Santos, García‐Herráiz, & Ramos‐Fuentes, 2011; Vaz‐Leal et al, 2007, 2010; Vaz‐Leal, Rodríguez‐Santos, García‐Herráiz, Monge‐Bautista, & López‐Vinuesa, 2011). In a recent study, we reported that AN‐restricting type patients display a pattern of stress‐induced cortisol release similar to that of healthy individuals, whereas a blunted cortisol response is observed in BN patients (Vaz‐Leal et al, 2018).…”