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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 30.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2008 Sep 7;161(1):51–58. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2007.09.003

Table 3.

Threshold-level Eating Disorder Co-morbidity in Patients with Bipolar Disorder

Female (n = 53) Male (n = 28) Total (N = 81)
Diagnosis n % n % n %
Current
BED 5 9.4 1 3.6 6 7.4
Lifetime
AN 6 11.3 0 0 6 7.4
BN 5 9.4 2 7.1 7 8.6
BED 7 13.2 2 7.1 9 11.1
Any Eating Disorder 13* 24.5 4 14.3 17 21.0

AN = anorexia nervosa; BN = bulimia nervosa; BED = binge eating disorder.

*

Female total does not sum to 18 because 4 women had more than 1 lifetime eating disorder diagnosis as follows: AN + BN (n = 1); AN + BED (n = 1); BN + BED (n = 1); AN + BN + BED (n = 1).