Weight discrimination and eating disorder symptoms in early adolescence: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Weight discrimination is associated with adverse outcomes, including eating disorder (ED) symptoms, but few longitudinal studies have investigated this relationship in early adolescence. We examined the prospective association of weight discrimination with ED symptoms one year later in early adolescents, and the extent to which this association was moderated by body mass index (BMI) percentile and sex.

Methods

We analyzed prospective data from Year 2 (2018-2020) and Year 3 (2019-2021) of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (N = 9,079). To estimate the associations between self-reported experiences of weight discrimination in Year 2 and ED symptoms in Year 3, we conducted multiple logistic and ordinal logistic regression analyses, controlling fo

SUBMITTER: Nagata JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12482715 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature