Co-occurring psychiatric disorders in young people with eating disorders: An multi-state and real-time analysis of real-world administrative data.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We aimed to use real-world data to characterize the burden of psychiatric comorbidities in young people with eating disorders (EDs) relative to peers without EDs.

Method

This retrospective cohort study used a large federated multi-national network of real-time electronic health records. Our cohort consisted of 124,575 people (14,524 people receiving their index, first-ever, ED diagnosis, compared to 110,051 peers without EDs initiating antidepressants). After 1:1 propensity score matching of the two cohorts by pre-existing demographic and clinical characteristics, we used multivariable logistic regression to compute the adjusted odds ratio (aOR) of psychiatric diagnoses arising in the year following the index event (either first ED diagnosis or first antidepressant

SUBMITTER: Lin BY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11390323 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature