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Binge-eating disorder in obese adolescent girls
R Berkowitz1, A J Stunkard, V A Stallings
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|October 29, 1993
Abstract:
Thirty percent of 51 obese adolescent girls seeking treatment for their obesity engaged in binge eating. Two psychometric measures, "disinhibition" and "happiness and satisfaction" predicted 63% of the variance in severity of binge eating. There was no difference in the history of dieting between obese subjects who binged and those who did not.