Binge-eating disorder in the Swedish national registers: Somatic comorbidity.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate associations between binge-eating disorder (BED) and somatic illnesses and determine whether medical comorbidities are more common in individuals who present with BED and comorbid obesity.

Method

Cases (n = 850) were individuals with a BED diagnosis in the Swedish eating disorders quality registers. Ten community controls were matched to each case on sex, and year, month, and county of birth. Associations of BED status with neurologic, immune, respiratory, gastrointestinal, skin, musculoskeletal, genitourinary, circulatory, and endocrine system diseases were evaluated using conditional logistic regression models. We further examined these associations by adjusting for lifetime psychiatric comorbidity. Amongst individuals with BED, we explored whether co

SUBMITTER: Thornton LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5215312 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature