Lifetime obesity in patients with eating disorders: increasing prevalence, clinical and personality correlates.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aims of our study were to examine the lifetime prevalence of obesity rate in eating disorders (ED) subtypes and to examine whether there have been temporal changes among the last 10 years and to explore clinical differences between ED with and without lifetime obesity.

Methods

Participants were 1383 ED female patients (DSM-IV criteria) consecutively admitted, between 2001 and 2010, to Bellvitge University Hospital. They were assessed by means of the Eating Disorders Inventory-2, the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised, the Bulimic Investigatory Test Edinburgh and the Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised.

Results

The prevalence of lifetime obesity in ED cases was 28.8% (ranging from 5% in anorexia nervosa to 87% in binge-eating disorders). Over the last

SUBMITTER: Villarejo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3510304 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature