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 p < 0.05.

^**Significant differences between BED and BN group at p < 0.001.