Examining Associations of Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms and Eating Disorder Diagnoses: Results From a US Representative Sample.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) and eating disorders (EDs) are common comorbid diagnoses. Given the various combinations of borderline personality disorder symptoms (BPDS) that can comprise a diagnosis, understanding whether specific BPDS are more likely to be associated with an ED (anorexia nervosa [AN], bulimia nervosa [BN], and binge eating disorder [BED]) is important for the conceptualization and treatment of BPD-ED comorbidity.

Methods

This study used data from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions-III (NESARC-III) study, a nationally representative dataset of US adults (N = 36,309). The association of BPDS with EDs, compared with psychiatric and healthy control groups, was examined in two binomial and two multinomial (i.e

SUBMITTER: Mendoza RR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11969029 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature