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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Psychiatry. 2020 Feb;216(2):113–119. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2019.174

Table 2.

Distribution of outcome variables measured at age 16 years, separate for boys and girls

Outcome Measures
Boys (n = 1956) Girls (n = 2,804)
Eating disorder behaviours
Fasting 58/1921 (3%) 562/2760 (20.4%)
Purging 25/1927 (1.3%) 263/2779 (9.5%)
Binge eating 75/1921 (3.9%) 438/2767 (15.8%)
Excessive exercise 28/1828 (1.5%) 175/2526 (6.9%)
Eating disorder diagnoses
Anorexia nervosa 19/1956 (1%) 69/2804 (2.5%)
Bulimia nervosa n<0/1956 (0%) 37/2804 (1.3%)
Binge-eating disorder 11/1956 (0.6%) 42/2804 (1.5%)
Purging disorder n<5/1956 (0.3%) 69/2804 (2.5%)