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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 14.
Published in final edited form as: Compr Psychiatry. 2010 Aug 13;52(3):312–318. doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2010.06.011

Table 1.

Comparison of weight losers and weight gainers during the year prior to seeking treatment: Historical weight and binge eating variables.

Weight Losers
N=19		 Weight Gainers
N=44		 Correlation with
Weight Changea
N=68
M SD M SD t r
Age 42.7 10.7 45.9 11.7 1.00 .11
Current body mass index 37.7 5.6 38.1 5.2 −0.26 .00
Current weight 240.4 39.3 234.5 39.3 0.54 −.03
Highest adult weight 262.1 46.9 245.9 56.8 1.08 −.18
Age first overweight 13.2 6.4 21.2 11.4 −3.32** .33*
Age of bingeing onset 20.7 7.2 28.9 13.8 −3.07** .26*
Age of first diet 21.7 10.2 24.0 10.3 −0.82 .10
Times on a diet 38.6 63.4 30.2 64.6 0.47 −.08
Times lost and regained
20+ pounds		 2.6 1.2 2.7 1.0 −0.25 .07
a

Note: Pearson’s r correlation between participants’ weight change in the past 12 months (current weight – weight 12 months ago) and the listed variables.

*

p<0.05,

**

p<.01, two-tailed.