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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Behav Med. 2017 Dec;51(6):822–832. doi: 10.1007/s12160-017-9905-1

Table 5.

Associations of PTSD symptoms in 2007 and eating behaviors in 2010 with obesity risk in 2013 in the Growing Up Today Study

Eating behavior/PTSD symptoms N(cases) Model 1: Crude Model 2: Adjusted for sociodemographicsa Model 3: Adjusted for baseline BMIb
RR (95% CI) RR (95% CI) RR (95% CI)
Women Binge eating
No 3672 (496) 1 1 1
Yes 334 (91) 2.0 (1.7, 2.4) 1.8 (1.5, 2.2) 1.1 (0.9, 1.3)
Top quartile of coping-motivated eating
No 3036 (333) 1 1 1
Yes 857 (237) 2.5 (2.2, 2.9) 2.4 (2.0, 2.8) 1.5 (1.3, 1.7)
Top quartile of disinhibited eating
No 3164 (352) 1 1 1
Yes 732 (219) 2.7 (2.3, 3.1) 2.7 (2.3, 3.2) 1.5 (1.3, 1.8)
PTSD symptoms
0 2047 (258) 1 1 1
1–3 1465 (233) 1.3 (1.1, 1.5) 1.2 (1.0, 1.4) 1.2 (1.0, 1.4)
4–7 566 (104) 1.5 (1.2, 1.8) 1.5 (1.2, 1.8) 1.3 (1.1, 1.6)
Men Binge eating
No 1753 (245) 1 1 1
Yes 48 (18) 2.7 (1.8, 3.9) 2.7 (1.8, 4.0) 1.5 (1.0, 2.2)
Top quartile of coping-motivated eating
No 1351 (158) 1 1 1
Yes 340 (94) 2.4 (1.9, 3.0) 2.5 (1.9, 3.1) 1.5 (1.2, 1.9)
Top quartile of disinhibited eating
No 1226 (109) 1 1 1
Yes 466 (143) 3.5 (2.8, 4.3) 3.4 (2.6, 4.3) 2.0 (1.6, 2.6)
PTSD symptoms
0 1136(176) 1 1 1
1–3 551(73) 0.9 (0.7, 1.1) 0.8 (0.6, 1.1) 0.7 (0.6, 0.9)
4–7 185(30) 1.0 (0.7, 1.5) 1.1 (0.7, 1.5) 1.0 (0.7, 1.3)