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Point Prevalence across Varying Definitions of Purging Disorder
| Purging | Compensatory Behavior1 | |||||||
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| 2/week | 1/week | 2/week | 1/week | |||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Women | 11 | 0.6 | 16 | 0.9 | 42 | 4.1 | 57 | 5.5 |
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| 1982 | 8 | 1.3 | 10 | 1.6 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 1992 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.4 | 21 | 4.1 | 30 | 5.8 |
| 2002 | 3 | 0.6 | 4 | 0.8 | 21 | 4.1 | 27 | 5.3 |
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| Men | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 | 8 | 1.8 | 8 | 1.8 |
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| 1982 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 1992 | 1 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.4 | 3 | 1.4 | 3 | 1.4 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 2.2 | 5 | 2.2 |
Definitions using any compensatory behaviors were only diagnosed in the 1992 and 2002 cohorts
