Table 1.
Demographic variables of patients with AN and healthy controls.
| Healthy Controls (n=10) |
Patients with AN (n=26) |
ρ | p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (years) | 27.6 ±5.2 | 27.8 ±8.3 | 218 | .698§ |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 20.7 ±1.1 | 19.1 ±0.6 | 321 | <.001§ |
| YBC-EDS Total Score | 0 ±0 | 18.2 ±6.4 | 55 | <.001§ |
| Pre-Meal STAI-S | 22.3 ±3.8 | 54.5 ±13.5 | 60 | <.001§ |
| Mean SUDS | 0.34 ±.67 | 5.14 ±2.54 | 60 | <.001§ |
| t | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Length of Meal (min) | 13.2 ±4.3 | 15.6 ±5.8 | 1.19 | .242 |
| Intake (kcal) | 553.0 ±146.4 | 420.5 ±279.6 | −1.18 | .246 |
| Rate of Eating (kcal/min) | 44.0 ±11.6 | 26.6 ±17.5 | −2.91 | .006 |
| DEDS (kcal/g) | 1.2 ±.2 | 0.9 ±.4 | −2.04 | .048 |
Note.BMI= Body Mass Index; DEDS= Dietary Energy Density Score; STAI-S= State Trait Anxiety Inventory, State version; SUDS= Subject Units of Distress; W= Wilcoxon Statistic; YBC-EDS= Yale Brown Cornell- Eating Disorder Severity Scale.
§
p value from Wilcoxon test for variables that did not pass Shapiro-Wilk test for normality