Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of participants
|
Patients with BED (N
=
27) |
BED controls (N
=
28) |
P |
Patients with BN (N
=
29) |
BN controls (N
=
27) |
P | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | s.d. | Mean | s.d. | Mean | s.d. | Mean | s.d. | |||
| Age (years) | 38.26 | 13.75 | 38.00 | 10.85 | 0.94 | 27.45 | 10.55 | 25.74 | 5.25 | 0.45 |
| Body mass index | 32.61 | 4.55 | 34.02 | 4.50 | 0.25 | 21.33 | 2.99 | 21.85 | 1.85 | 0.44 |
| Education (years) | 12.07 | 1.69 | 12.18 | 2.06 | 0.84 | 12.66 | 1.40 | 12.70 | 0.87 | 0.88 |
| Beck depression inventory | 23.07 | 12.54 | 8.61 | 7.48 | <0.001 | 24.79 | 12.49 | 3.11 | 2.62 | <0.001 |
| Binge eating per week | 2.64 | 1.75 | — | — | 3.83 | 2.58 | — | — | ||
| Glucose (mg/dl) | 95.08 | 6.75 | 83.44 | 23.44 | 0.02 | 82.07 | 9.53 | 85.54 | 10.18 | 0.19 |
| DEBQ restrained eating | 19.37 | 6.93 | 15.39 | 6.97 | 0.04 | 28.83 | 7.63 | 10.19 | 7.19 | <0.001 |
| DEBQ emotional eating | 28.04 | 8.92 | 13.61 | 9.24 | <0.001 | 28.53 | 7.92 | 6.26 | 4.05 | <0.001 |
| DEBQ external eating | 26.04 | 6.99 | 20.54 | 6.37 | 0.004 | 25.17 | 7.18 | 18.33 | 6.92 | <0.001 |
| Food craving questionnaire—state | 41.30 | 14.64 | 33.21 | 13.49 | 0.05 | 39.55 | 13.49 | 33.00 | 10.06 | 0.04 |
| Food craving questionnaire—trait | 81.81 | 19.66 | 57.54 | 17.60 | <0.001 | 83.59 | 15.71 | 43.59 | 11.78 | <0.001 |