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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 6.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2017 Oct 6;25(12):2115–2122. doi: 10.1002/oby.22028

Table 1.

ED pathology variable levels at baseline by ED pathology group

ED pathology group
Total Sample
(N = 241)
Low ED Pathology
(LOW; n=83)
Shape and Weight Concerns
(SWC; n=97)
Only Loss of Control
(OLOC; n=24)
High ED Pathology
(HIGH; n=37)
ED pathology
Emotional eating 0.78 (0.73) 0.38 (0.44)a 0.90 (0.71)b 0.85 (0.74)b 1.29 (0.87)c
Shape concern 2.39 (1.55) 1.07 (0.54)a 2.99 (1.11)b 1.25 (0.49)a 4.51 (1.17)c
Eating concern 1.30 (1.13) 0.60 (0.47)a 1.21 (0.55)b 0.70 (0.59)a 3.49 (0.84)c
Weight concern 2.67 (1.41) 1.34 (0.53)a 3.40 (0.80)b 1.51 (0.41)a 3.42 (0.81)c
Restraint 1.55 (1.15) 1.16 (1.02)a 1.74 (1.18)b 0.88 (0.72)a 2.38 (0.98)c
Any LOC – last 3 months 82 (34%) 0 (0%)a 38 (39%)b 24 (100%)c 19 (51%)b
Number of LOC episodes – last month 1.40 (3.82) 0 (0)a 1.54 (4.03)b 2.54 (2.30)bc 3.46 (6.36)c

Values are mean (SD) or N (%).

ED pathology group means for a given variable sharing the same superscript are not significantly different from each other (p < 0.05).

Abbreviations: ED, Eating disorder; LOC, Loss of control over eating.