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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur Eat Disord Rev. 2014 Sep 9;22(6):397–404. doi: 10.1002/erv.2314

Table 2.

Maternal BMI and weight across eating disorder group over time presented as mean (sd).

Time
Period 1
-9 months to birth
Period 2
Birth to 6 months postpartum
Period 3
6–36 months postpartum

Pre-pregnancy
n=64,554
17 weeks
n=62,939
29 weeks
n=59,868
Birth
n=52,519
6 months
n=52,970
18 months
n=30,684
36 months
n=21,723

ANa BMI 18.2 (0.6) 20.0 (1.5) 22.3 (1.8) 24.4 (2.2) 19.1 (1.9) 18.9 (1.8) 19.5 (2.1)
Kg 51.8 (4.1) 56.8 (5.6) 63.1 (6.2) 69.1 (7.5) 54.0 (5.8) 54.0 (6.2) 57.1 (6.6)
n 56 54 48 44 45 31 16

BNb BMI 24.2 (4.4) 25.5 (4.3) 27.8 (4.6) 30.1 (5.3) 25.0 (5.1) 25.0 (5.1) 25.3 (5.2)
Kg 68.2 (13.1) 71.9 (12.9) 78.6 (13.7) 84.9 (15.4) 70.5 (15.0) 70.2 (14.7) 71.3 (14.8)
n 627 621 566 506 505 270 183

EDNOS-Pc BMI 23.8 (4.4) 24.8 (4.1) 27.5 (4.7) 29.9 (5.0) 24.6 (4.8) 24.3 (4.6) 24.6 (3.7)
Kg 66.3 (13.9) 69.1 (13.5) 76.6 (14.4) 83.3 (13.9) 68.4 (13.5) 67.9 (14.4) 69.6 (12.4)
n 66 64 59 56 57 35 20

BEDd BMI 25.9 (5.2) 27.1 (5.0) 29.5 (4.8) 31.6 (5.0) 26.6 (5.1) 26.5 (5.4) 26.7 (5.4)
Kg 73.2 (15.4) 76.6 (14.8) 83.5 (14.6) 89.4 (15.1) 75.2 (15.2) 74.8 (15.9) 75.6 (15.9)
n 3,285 3,216 3,053 2,623 2,649 1,497 1,042

No EDe BMI 23.9 (4.1) 24.9 (4.1) 27.1 (4.1) 29.2 (4.3) 24.3 (4.2) 24.2 (4.3) 24.5 (4.3)
Kg 67.6 (12.4) 70.4(12.2) 76.8 (12.3) 82.5 (13.0) 68.7 (12.6) 68.6 (12.7) 69.4 (12.8)
n 60,520 58,984 56,142 49,290 49,714 24,918 28,851
a

AN= anorexia nervosa

b

BN= bulimia nervosa

c

EDNOS-P = eating disorder NOS, purging subtype

d

BED= binge eating disorder

e

No ED = no eating disorder