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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 8.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Eat Disord. 2010 Jul;43(5):472–479. doi: 10.1002/eat.20829

TABLE 2.

Criteria for assigning cases to probable eating disorder diagnoses

Anorexia nervosa, restricting type

  1. Current BMI ≤17.5 kg/m2

  2. No binge eating, vomiting, laxative or diuretic use in the past month

  3. No history of bariatric surgery.
Anorexia nervosa, binge/purge type

  1. Current BMI ≤17.5 kg/m2

  2. Any binge eating, vomiting, laxative, or diuretic use within the past month

  3. No history of bariatric surgery
Bulimia nervosa and subthreshold bulimia nervosa, purging type

  1. BMI > 17.5 kg/m2

  2. A minimum average frequency of binge eating of once per week over the past month

  3. A minimum average frequency of vomiting, laxative, or diuretic use of once per week over the past month

  4. No history of bariatric surgery
Binge eating disorder and subthreshold binge eating disorder

  1. BMI > 17.5 kg/m2

  2. A minimum average frequency of binge eating of once per week over the past month

  3. No vomiting, laxative, or diuretic use in the past month

  4. No history of bariatric surgery
Purging disorder

  1. BMI > 17.5 kg/m2

  2. No binge eating in the past month

  3. A minimum average frequency of vomiting, laxative, or diuretic use of once per week

  4. No history of bariatric surgery
Eating disorder not otherwise specified

  1. BMI ≤ 25 kg/m2

  2. Does not meet any other diagnostic criteria

  3. No history of bariatric surgery
Overweight

  1. BMI > 25 but < 30 kg/m2

  2. Does not meet any other diagnostic criteria

  3. No history of bariatric surgery
Obese

  1. BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2

  2. Does not meet any other diagnostic criteria

  3. No history of bariatric surgery
History of bariatric surgery

  1. Status-post bariatric surgery
BMI or bariatric surgery history unreported

  1. Participant did not report current height, weight, or both

  2. No history of bariatric surgery or unknown history of bariatric surgery

Note: BMI, body mass index.