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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eat Weight Disord. 2020 Mar 28;26(2):695–702. doi: 10.1007/s40519-020-00888-6

Table 1.

Demographic and health characteristics of 12,082 young adult participants in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health

% Mean (SE)
Age (years) 21.77 (0.12)
Biological sex
 Female 50.6%
 Male 49.4%
Race/Ethnicity
 White (non-Hispanic) 69.4%
 Black/African American (non-Hispanic) 15.0%
 Hispanic/Latino 11.4%
 Asian/Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 3.0%
 American Indian/Native American 0.5%
 Other 0.7%
Parent highest educational attainment
 Less than high school 14.5%
 High school graduate 30.0%
 Some college 22.6%
 College graduate 32.9%
Household income (thousands of U.S. dollars) 46.22 (1.38)
Body mass index (kg/m2) 26.52 (0.13)
Eating disorder and behavior exposures at baseline
 Eating disorder diagnosis proxies 2.1%
  With restrictive eating behaviors 0.5%
  With compensatory behaviors 0.3%
  With overeating/loss of control eating 0.3%
 Any disordered eating behavior 17.0%
  Restrictive eating behaviorsa 9.0%
  Any compensatory behaviorb 4.0%
   Vomiting to lose weight 0.2%
   Laxatives to lose weight 0.3%
   Diuretics to lose weight 0.3%
   Weight loss pill 3.5%
  Overeating or loss of control eating 7.2%
Trouble falling or staying asleep at baseline
 Never in the past four weeks 39.4%
 Less than once a week 36.1%
 1 or 2 times a week 14.2%
 3 or 4 times a week 7.7%
 5 or more times a week 2.6%
Sleep outcomes at seven-year follow-up
 Trouble falling asleep
  Never in the past four weeks 47.1%
  Less than once a week 18.6%
  1 or 2 times a week 18.0%
  3 or 4 times a week 8.5%
  5 or more times a week 7.8%
 Trouble staying asleep
  Never in the past four weeks 43.1%
  Less than once a week 17.7%
  1 or 2 times a week 17.6%
  3 or 4 times a week 9.8%
  5 or more times a week 11.9%

All means and percentages are calculated with weighted data to reflect the representative proportion in the target U.S. population

a

Restrictive eating behaviors include fasting or skipping meals

b

Any compensatory behaviors include vomiting, laxatives, diuretics, or weight loss pills for weight loss