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Depression as a correlate of starvation in patients with eating disorders
R G Laessle1, U Schweiger, K M Pirke
1Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Division of Psychoneuroendocrinology, Munich, F.R.G.
Biological Psychiatry
|April 1, 1988
Abstract:
The relationship between depressive symptoms and starvation, reflected by body weight and biochemical parameters, was investigated in 64 patients fulfilling DSM-III criteria for anorexia nervosa or bulimia. Multiple regression analysis revealed significant effects of body weight and beta-hydroxybutyric acid, respectively, on such specific depressive symptoms as depressed or dysphoric mood when controlling for severity of psychopathology of the eating disorder.