Food Addiction in Gambling Disorder: Frequency and Clinical Outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Background: The food addiction (FA) model is receiving increasing interest from the scientific community. Available empirical evidence suggests that this condition may play an important role in the development and course of physical and mental health conditions such as obesity, eating disorders, and other addictive behaviors. However, no epidemiological data exist on the comorbidity of FA and gambling disorder (GD), or on the phenotype for the co-occurrence of GD+FA. Objectives: To determine the frequency of the comorbid condition GD+FA, to assess whether this comorbidity features a unique clinical profile compared to GD without FA, and to generate predictive models for the presence of FA in a GD sample. Method: Data correspond to N = 458 treatment-seeking patie

SUBMITTER: Jimenez-Murcia S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5378803 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature