The Course of Eating Disorders Involving Bingeing and Purging Among Adolescent Girls: Prevalence, Stability, and Transitions.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To quantify eating disorder (ED) stability and diagnostic transition among a community-based sample of adolescents and young adult females in the United States.

Methods

Using 11 prospective assessments from 9,031 U.S. females ages 9-15 years at baseline of the Growing Up Today Study, we classified cases of the following EDs involving bingeing and purging: bulimia nervosa (BN), binge ED, purging disorder (PD), and subthreshold variants defined by less frequent (monthly vs. weekly) bingeing and purging behaviors. We measured number of years symptomatic and probability of maintaining symptoms, crossing to another diagnosis, or resolving symptoms across consecutive surveys.

Results

Study lifetime disorder prevalence was 2.1% for BN and roughly 6% each for binge ED

SUBMITTER: Glazer KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10535941 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature