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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Res Ther. 2009 Sep 25;48(1):60–67. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2009.09.009

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics for the original (GAN)* and validation (AN Trios)** sample***

GAN (N=262) AN Trios (N=383) Results
Variable Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Χ2 (p-value)
Age (years) 25.3 (8.1) 25.0 (6.7) 0.09 (0.77)
Age at Eating Disorder Onset (years) 16.2 (3.1) 14.5 (3.2) 38.64 (<0.001)
Lowest BMI (kg/m2) 14.2 (2.0) 13.7 (1.9) 10.43 (0.002)
Lowest Calorie Intake (kcal/day) 533.3 (390.7) 458.1 (320.9) 6.17 (0.02)
Childhood Anxiety Scale 6.7 (6.0) 8.3 (5.7) 0.15 (0.70)
No Yes No Yes Χ2 (p-value)
N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%)
Qualitative Food Restriction 139 (53.0) 123 (47.0) 210 (54.8) 173 (45.2) 0.07 (0.80)
Excessive Exercise 154 (58.8) 108 (41.2) 183 (47.8) 200 (52.2) 7.62 (0.006)
Currently Ill 68 (26.0) 194 (74.0) 87 (22.7) 296 (77.3) 0.87 (0.36)
Restricting Anorexia Nervosa 152 (58.0) 110 (42.0) 193 (50.4) 190 (49.6) 3.64 (0.06)
*

Genetics of Anorexia Nervosa (GAN)

**

Price Foundation Anorexia Nervosa Trios Study (AN Trios)

***

p-values are not FDR corrected