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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 6.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Eat Disord. 2012 Mar 12;45(5):664–669. doi: 10.1002/eat.22008

TABLE 1.

Probability estimates of binge-type transitions over 6 month intervals (full sample and diagnostic subgroups)

None SBE only OBE only Both OBE/SBE
Full sample (N = 288)
None 0.75 0.12 0.07 0.05
SBE only 0.21 0.47 0.11 0.21
OBE only 0.17 0.12 0.45 0.26
Both OBE/SBE 0.09 0.21 0.27 0.43
Broadly defined anorexia nervosa (n = 71)
None 0.89 0.10 0.01 0.01
SBE only 0.22 0.61 0.02 0.15
OBE only 0.04 0.12 0.68 0.16
Both OBE/SBE 0.06 0.32 0.21 0.41
Broadly defined bulimia nervosa (n = 95)
None 0.69 0.22 0.06 0.10
SBE only 0.22 0.42 0.12 0.25
OBE only 0.14 0.10 0.42 0.34
Both OBE/SBE 0.08 0.17 0.27 0.48
Broadly defined binge-eating disorder (n = 122)
None 0.54 0.14 0.20 0.11
SBE only 0.19 0.36 0.21 0.24
OBE only 0.20 0.13 0.44 0.23
Both OBE/SBE 0.12 0.22 0.28 0.38

Notes: SBE, subjective bulimic (binge eating) episodes; OBE, objective bulimic (binge eating) episodes.