. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 1.

Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 Dec 11;17(3):481–486. doi: 10.1038/oby.2008.560

Table 2.

Eating and weight history variables in treatment-seeking binge eating disorder patients with and without the metabolic syndrome

	No metabolic syndrome (n = 37)	Metabolic syndrome (n = 56)	P value	Partial η²
Age of obesity onset	12.91 (1.55)	16.43 (1.21)	0.10	0.03
Age of binge eating onset	22.74 (2.11)	24.18 (1.62)	0.61	0.003
Age of dieting onset	17.93 (1.50)	20.38 (1.15)	0.23	0.02
Weight cycling	3.58 (0.16)	2.90 (0.12)	0.002	0.10
Highest adult BMI	41.06 (1.13)	39.35 (0.87)	0.26	0.02
Lowest adult BMI	23.71 (0.68)	24.09 (0.52)	0.68	0.002

Values are mean estimates and s.e. based on analysis of covariance that controlled for BMI, gender, and ethnicity.