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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Abnorm Psychol. 2012 Nov 12;122(2):445–457. doi: 10.1037/a0030679

Table 5.

Transitions between eating disorder diagnoses with percentage of initial disorder that transitioned to a subsequent disorder in parentheses

Subsequent Diagnosis/Condition
Initial
Disorder/Condition		 Anorexia
nervosa		 Bulimia
nervosa		 Binge
eating
disorder		 FED-
NEC		 Atypical
anorexia
nervosa		 Subthreshold
bulimia nervosa		 Subthreshold
binge eating
disorder		 Purging
disorder
Anorexia nervosa 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Bulimia nervosa 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 3 (23%) 1 (8%) 1 (8%) 2 (15%) 1 (8%) 0 (0%)
Binge eating disorder 0 (0%) 3 (20%) 0 (0%) 5 (33%) 3 (20%) 2 (13%) 5 (33%) 0 (0%)
FED-NEC 0 (0%) 9 (16%) 9 (16%) 0 (0%) 4 (7%) 5 (9%) 2 (4%) 3 (5%)
Atypical anorexia
nervosa		 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 2 (14%)
Subthreshold bulimia
nervosa		 0 (0%) 7 (32%) 5 (23%) 0 (0%) 3 (14%) 0 (0%) 2 (9%) 0 (0%)
Subthreshold binge
eating disorder		 0 (0%) 4 (22%) 5 (28%) 0 (0%) 1 (6%) 4 (22%) 0 (0%) 1 (6%)
Purging disorder 0 (0%) 1 (6%) 1 (6%) 0 (0%) 2 (12%) 1 (6%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)