Prevalence and comorbidity of eating disorders among a community sample of adolescents: 2-year follow-up

Prevalence, correlates and comorbidities of feeding and eating disorders in a nationally representative sample of Iranian children and adolescents

“…In our study, the co‐occurrence of disordered eating with any kind of psychiatric disorder was 54.43%. Near to our estimation, researchers in Spain found that adolescents with eating disorders have 63% comorbidity with other psychiatric disorders (Rojo‐Moreno et al, ). In Swanson et al () study, 55.2% of those with anorexia, 88% of those with bulimia, and 83.5% of those with binge‐eating showed at least one other psychiatric comorbidity.…”

Long‐term outcome of anorexia nervosa: Results from a large clinical longitudinal study

“…Lifetime Axis I comorbidity was associated with more instability of ED diagnoses after treatment (Milos et al, 2013). Rojo-Moreno et al (2015) identified anxiety disorders, but not mood disorders, as a risk factor of later onset of ED. Zerwas, Lund, Holle, Thornton, and Berrettini, (2013) found higher trait anxiety to be a negative predictor of AN outcome.…”

“…Vall and Wade (2015) and Wild et al (2016) reported baseline comorbid depression to be associated with a negative outcome at follow-up, but the latter failed to find similar results for comorbid anxiety, PTSD, OCD, or alcohol. Rojo-Moreno et al (2015) identified anxiety disorders, but not mood disorders, as a risk factor of later onset of ED. Additional studies also contributed conflicting evidence.…”

“…A higher initial BMI predicted better outcome (Wild et al, 2016;Zipfel et al, 2000). Concerning general psychopathology, evidence on the predictive value of depression and anxiety is conflicting (Herpertz-Dahlmann et al, 1995;Milos, Baur, Muehlebach, & Spindler, 2013;Rojo-Moreno, Arribas, Plumed, Gimeno, & García-Blanco, 2015;Vall & Wade, 2015;Wild et al, 2016). Our review suggests the following variables, all measured at the beginning of treatment, as possible predictors for the longer term poor outcome of AN: a high degree of ED-specific psychopathology; a high degree of general psychopathology; a longer duration of the course of eating disorder/chronicity; a lower body mass index (BMI); and a higher age.…”

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms and disordered eating in the English general population

“…More recently, other researchers have found that there is a significant relationship between lifetime ADHD and lifetime bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder and any ED but not anorexia nervosa or subthreshold binge-eating disorder (Ziobrowski, Brewerton, & Duncan, 2017). Although the mechanisms underlying this association remain poorly understood, several longitudinal studies have shown that ADHD may lead to the onset of several types of EDs (Biederman et al, 2007;Rojo-Moreno et al, 2015;Viborg, Wångby-Lundh, & Lundh, 2014). Although these findings are of great importance, there are only a few nationally representative studies on this topic, and these few studies were all from the United States (Bleck et al, 2015;Bleck & DeBate, 2013;Ziobrowski et al, 2017).…”