Skip to main content
. 2019 Jan 15;9(2):e01207. doi: 10.1002/brb3.1207

Table 1.

Demographics and clinical characteristics of control and patient group

BED patients (n = 27) BED controls (n = 28) p BN patients (n = 29) BN controls (n = 30) p
Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
Age (years)** 38.39 13.06 39.40 10.48 0.76 27.45 10.55 26.86 6.59 0.80
Body mass index** 32.64 4.13 33.58 4.54 0.43 21.33 2.99 21.85 1.80 0.43
Education (years) 12.04 1.76 12.00 2.02 0.94 12.66 1.40 12.733 0.83 0.80
Verbal intelligence (MWT‐B Score) 109.41 15.16 106.29 10.20 0.377 105.38 12.27 106.4 13.82 0.766
Beck Depression Inventory 22.07 11.09 7.93 7.23 <0.001 25.33 12.31 3.67 3.11 <0.001
DEBQ – total 74.93 15.47 49.21 14.42 <0.001 82.52 16.39 37.13 12.74 <0.001
DEBQ – restrained eating** 19.89 6.50 15.89 7.41 0.042 28.83 7.63 11.53 8.11 <0.001
DEBQ – emotional eating 28.04 9.18 13.57 9.30 <0.001 28.52 7.94 7.13 4.73 <0.001
DEBQ – external eating 27.00 7.27 19.75 6.75 <0.001 25.17 7.18 28.47 6.58 <0.001
Food craving questionnaire ‐ state 41.96 14.86 32.54 12.72 0.015 39.55 13.49 32.73 10.19 0.033
Food craving questionnaire ‐ trait 83.46 18.85 56.07 17.79 <0.001 83.59 15.71 44.73 11.72 <0.001
Binge eating per week* 2.56 1.52 3.83 2.58
*

Significant differences between BED and BN group at < 0.05.

**

Significant differences between BED and BN group at < 0.001.