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Diagnosing a nocturnal eating disorder in an average-weight man
Arthur Arcaz1, Natalie White2, Asefa Jejaw Mekonnen3
1Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia, USA aca93@georgetown.edu.
Abstract:
A middle-aged man of average weight presented to the sleep medicine clinic for multiple episodes of nocturnal eating during night-time awakenings for the past several months. His symptoms were more characteristic of night eating syndrome rather than sleep-related eating disorder because of his recollection of the eating episodes and intake of edible substances during these episodes. He was treated with a low dose of sertraline with an initial improvement of symptoms followed by a relapse that was controlled with an increased dose. A year after initiation of therapy, his symptoms have resolved.
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