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Published in final edited form as: Child Abuse Negl. 2008 Oct 22;32(9):878–887. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2007.11.004

Table 4.

Degree to which Binge Eating or Body Dissatisfaction Mediate Associations Between Childhood Maltreatment and Obesity.

Logistic Regression Models	Child sexual abuse		Child physical abuse
Logistic Regression Models	OR (95% CI)	p-value	OR (95% CI)	p-value
Abuse predicting Obesity	2.03 (1.63 – 2.52)	<0.0001	2.24 (1.75 – 2.87)	<0.0001
Abuse predicting Binge Eating	2.90 (2.04 – 4.11)	<0.0001	1.87 (1.24 – 2.84)	0.003
Abuse predicting Obesity, controlling for Binge Eating	1.86 (1.48 – 2.33)	<0.0001	2.17 (1.68 – 2.80)	<0.0001
Abuse predicting Body Dissatisfaction	1.89 (1.50 – 2.37)	<0.0001	2.10 (1.63 – 2.70)	<0.0001
Abuse predicting Obesity, controlling for Body Dissatisfaction	1.67 (1.29 – 2.17)	0.0001	1.78 (1.32 – 2.41)	0.0002

Note. OR = odds ratio, CI = confidence interval.