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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Eat Disord. 2017 Nov 7;50(12):1394–1403. doi: 10.1002/eat.22796
Males (n=155)
Females (n=1,373)
With exercise data Missing exercise data Effect size of difference p
With exercise data Missing exercise data Effect size of difference p


N=1,528 122 (78.7%) 33 (21.3%) 961 (70.0%) 412 (30.0%)
Mean or % (95% CI)b Mean or % (95% CI)b Cohen’s d (95% CI)b Mean or % (95% CI)b Mean or % (95% CI)b Cohen’s d (95% CI)b
DSM-5 Diagnosis 0.688 0.746
Anorexia nervosa 71.4 (68.7–74.0)% 72.7 (54.3–85.7)% −0.01 (−0.39–0.37) 71.2 (68.3–74.0)% 68.9 (64.3–73.2)% −0.05 (−0.17–0.07)
Atypical anorexia nervosa 7.7 (6.3–9.5)% 18.2 (8.0–36.1)% 0.07 (−0.31–0.46) 6.8 (5.3–8.5)% 7.5 (5.3–10.5)% 0.03 (−0.09–0.15)
Bulimia nervosa 20.8 (18.5–23.4)% 9.1 (2.8–25.9)% −0.07 (−0.46–0.31) 22.0 (19.5–24.8)% 23.5 (19.7–27.9)% 0.04 (−0.08–0.15)
Age, years 15.41 (15.01 – 15.81) 15.19 (14.46 – 15.93) −0.10 (−0.48–0.28) 0.611 15.65 (15.52 – 15.78) 15.27 (15.09 – 15.44) −0.20 (−0.31– −0.08) <0.001
Duration illness (months) 16.51 (15.48 – 17.55) 15.79 (10.24 – 21.33) 0.00 (−0.38–0.39) 0.990 16.61 (15.54–17.67) 15.51 (14.18–15.44) −0.07 (−0.19–0.05) 0.241
Rate of weight loss 2.25 (1.83 – 2.67) 2.32 (1.53 – 3.11) 0.03 (−0.38–0.44) 0.878 1.50 (1.39–1.61) 1.75 (1.54–1.96) 0.14 (0.02–0.26) 0.024
%mBMIc 85.92 (84.05 – 88.29) 87.12 (82.94 – 91.29) 0.09 (−0.30–0.47) 0.650 86.32 (85.29 – 87.35) 87.10 (85.59–88.62) 0.05 (−0.07–0.16) 0.408
a

Patients with AN, atypical AN, or BN who were 10–19 years old

b

95% CI = 95% confidence interval

c

%mBMI = percentage median body mass index