Table 7.
Age-of-onset priority of DSM-IV eating disorders and related behavior with comorbid DSM-IV disorders
| Percent where eating disorders or behavior are temporally primary1 | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anorexia Nervosa | Bulimia Nervosa | Binge-eating Disorder | Subthreshold Binge-eating | Any binge-eating behavior | |||||||||||
| % | (se) | (n) | % | (se) | (n) | % | (se) | (n) | % | (se) | (n) | % | (se) | (n) | |
| Anxiety disorders | 15.3 | (11.3) | (14) | 21.2 | (8.9) | (42) | 8.6 | (3.3) | (76) | 4.0 | (3.8) | (27) | 13.0 | (3.8) | (127) |
| Mood disorders | 70.1 | (14.8) | (14) | 64.8 | (9.1) | (36) | 34.6 | (9.1) | (58) | 39.6 | (13.5) | (20) | 48.9 | (5.9) | (100) |
| Impulse-control disorders | 0.0 | -- | (6) | 2.6 | (2.2) | (24) | 4.7 | (3.2) | (45) | 12.5 | (7.6) | (15) | 5.8 | (2.3) | (75) |
| Substance use disorders | 61.8 | (16.9) | (9) | 71.0 | (12.1) | (18) | 26.3 | (8.2) | (31) | 50.0 | (14.7) | (17) | 52.7 | (8.2) | (62) |
1
Based on comparison of retrospective AOO reports for eating disorders and the earliest comorbid disorder in the category