Bulimia - Science topic

Introduction Liraglutide 3.0 mg, a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analogue, is a medication approved for obesity treatment. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between psychiatric symptoms, including depression, anxiety, and binge eating, and their impact on therapy adherence. Methods A clinical audit was carried out on a cohort of 5...

Os transtornos alimentares (TA), correspondem a um grupo de transtornos psicopatológicos que afetam a relação dos indivíduos com a alimentação e com seu corpo. Trazendo como consequência hábitos nocivos que resultam em instabilidade emocional, funcional e em casos extremos ao óbito. O dentista tem um papel essencial na prevenção secundária desses t...

Individuals with Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa present alterations in the way they experience their bodies. Body experience results from a multisensory integration process in which information from different sensory domains and spatial reference frames is combined into a coherent percept. Given the critical role of the body in the onset and...

Aim Patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) sometimes undergo a chronic course, and they hardly maintain social participation. Work and social adjustment impairments are generally significantly associated with the clinical symptoms of eating disorders. Psychopathologies associated with the subjective social difficulties of patients with AN have been un...

Eating disorders (EDs) have been understudied and misunderstood in men. Among the relevant factors in the risk, onset, and maintenance of EDs, personality stands out. Therefore, the aim of the study was to analyze the relationships between personality traits and risk variables for the development of EDs in men. A total of 443 male university studen...

Eating disorders and excessive attachment to social media are a matter of great concern among youths. This study assessed the prevalence of eating disorders and their association with social media addiction among youths. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 350 participants aged 14–25 years. Two pre-validated tools were used, i.e.,...

Bariatric surgery is an effective method for the treatment of severe obesity, however, binge eating disorder (BED) and negative body image can interfere with post-surgical evolution. To describe the factors associated with BED in bariatric patients with a minimum of 2 years post-surgery. A cross-sectional observational study conducted with patients...

O artigo visa demonstrar através de uma revisão literária as consequências que as dietas feitas por influência das diversas plataformas de mídias sociais existentes podem impactar na saúde das mulheres, visto que a busca pelo corpo ideal em um curto período de tempo tem se intensificado cada vez mais, é nítido que a mídia interfere de maneira signi...

Eating disorders (EDs) and sub-threshold conditions are prevalent in the adolescent population. Unfortunately, most preventive interventions have been targeted at emerging adults and the effectiveness of online prevention programs has yet to be determined in adolescents. This study sought to examine the short-term effectiveness of a universal e-Hea...

Background: Men are more likely than women to have subthreshold overeating disorders. Lifestyle plays a role as a determinant, while chronotype is an emerging factor. Chronotype explains the natural preferences of wakefulness and activity throughout the day: evening chronotypes (E-Types), those most productive in the evening, have been linked with...

Background: Preoperative binge eating behavior has been associated with difficulties in weight loss maintenance among patients pursuing bariatric surgery. However, limited data exists on the relationship between interpersonal difficulties and binge eating. Objectives: To identify interpersonal factors linked with binge eating among bariatric surger...

Introduction: Web-based guided self-help cognitive behavioral therapy-enhanced(CBT-E) is a 12-weeks, 12-sessions, digitalized version of part II of the self-help book Overcoming Binge Eating. This intervention is effective when offered under controlledcircumstances in a randomized-controlled-trial. It is unknown how patients withbinge-eating disord...

Objetivo: Este estudo teve por objetivo investigar por meio da literatura científica como as estratégias utilizadas na Nutrição Comportamental podem contribuir para o manejo da anorexia nervosa e bulimia. Metodologia: O trabalho realizado é uma revisão integrativa da literatura. Fez-se uma busca bibliográfica nas bases de dados Pubmed e Scielo e, a...

Métodos de tratamento de transtornos alimentares segundo a nutrição comportamental. Objetivo: avaliar a eficácia da nutrição comportamental no tratamento de transtornos alimentares, mais especificamente anorexia, bulimia e transtorno de compulsão alimentar, analisando as técnicas utilizadas e seus efeitos nos indivíduos portadores. Metodologia: o m...

Los trastornos alimentarios son trastornos psiquiátricos graves caracterizados por comportamientos anormales de alimentación o de control del peso, que pueden provocar graves problemas de salud. Estos trastornos incluyen la anorexia nerviosa, la bulimia nerviosa, el trastorno por atracón y el trastorno alimentario no especificado (TCA-NE). Entre lo...

Bulimia is the most primitive reason for overweight and obesity. The extended literature has indicated that childhood emotional abuse has a close relationship with adverse mood states, bulimia, and obesity. To comprehensively understand the potential links among these factors, we evaluated a multiple mediation model in which anxiety/depression and...

Type 1 diabetes and eating disorders, especially anorexia and bulimia, are increasingly common in children and adolescents. The coexistence of these diseases is both a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Focusing on food, both in terms of its quality and quantity, is one of the basic aspects of diabetes treatment, but also one of the integral ele...

Objetivo: compreender as principais características da anorexia e bulimia em adolescentes, por meio de uma revisão bibliográfica qualitativa, além de explicar que um diagnóstico precoce e uma abordagem familiar são fundamentais para resultados positivos em longo prazo. Metodologia: trata-se de uma revisão bibliográfica qualitativa, a partir dos art...

ntroduction: gender differences are notorious in population with a substance use disorder (SUD), from consumption patterns to treatment needs. Objective: to determine the differences between men and women in the prevalence of co-occurring disorders, contact with services and other health risks, like suicidal and high-risk sexual behaviors in a samp...

Disclosure: P. Kempegowda: None. K. Malhotra: None. H. Khalil: None. M. Davitadze: None. C. Tay: None. A. Mousa: None. P. Team: None. H.J. Teede: None. L. Brennan: None. E. Stener-Victorin: None. Background: While several studies have established the increased prevalence of depression and anxiety among those with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), t...

Introdução: Os transtornos alimentares são um grupo de transtornos mentais que resultam em uma alimentação alterada que implica significativamente na saúde física e psicossocial do indivíduo. Em razão da gravidade deste transtorno, se faz necessária a identificação de seus sinais, sintomas e fatores de risco para que as estratégias de promoção e pr...

Os transtornos alimentares constituem um desafio complexo, afetando não apenas a saúde física, mas também o bem-estar emocional e psicológico dos indivíduos. A avaliação dos hábitos alimentares nesse contexto é fundamental para entender a etiologia, os fatores de risco e o desenvolvimento desses transtornos. A pesquisa aborda uma variedade de abord...

Anorexia nervosa is an illness affecting primarily adolescent girls and young women. Clinical guidelines recommend early intervention, with inpatient treatment for more severe cases. We present an evaluation of a multi-modal cognitive–behavioral inpatient treatment (CBT-E) involving carers in specialized units for adolescents. Routine data of 962 a...

Playing sports, in addition to guiding the athlete towards a healthy lifestyle, provides personal satisfaction and fulfilment that facilitates finding meaning and integration in the community. The aim of this research was to determine the association between eating attitudes and age groups among female basketball players. A sample of 67 female part...

Being employed in a managerial position is often associated with maintaining high standards in many aspects of life. Many leaders pay attention to their physical activity, eating habits, and social skills. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought additional difficulties to the already-demanding job of managing people and forced managers to make m...

In recent years, the diagnostic definitions of eating disorders (EDs) have undergone dramatic changes. The Eating Attitudes Test-26 (EAT-26), which is considered an accepted instrument for community ED studies, has shown in its factorial structure to be inconsistent in different cultures and populations. The aim of the present study was to compare...

RESUMEN Poco conocemos sobre los trastornos de la ingesta y de la conducta alimentaria (TICA) en la comunidad de origen latino en el Caribe. El propósito de este estudio es documentar los trabajos publicados sobre el TICA con población latina hispanoparlante en el Caribe. La revisión narrativa sistemática estuvo centrada en Cuba, Puerto Rico y Repú...

Kluver-Bucy Syndrome (KBS) is a rare neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by hyperorality, hypersexuality, bulimia, visual agnosia, and amnesia due to lesions affecting bilateral temporal lobes. It is attributed to a multitude of causes, including stroke, herpes simplex encephalitis, Alzheimer’s disease, and head trauma. Current treatments for K...

Food addiction (FA) has been associated with binge eating disorder (BED) and obesity at varying levels of severity and treatment outcomes. Despite much debate and scientific interest in FA, the mechanisms that underlie its co-occurrence with both conditions are not yet well understood. In order to understand this relationship , this study explores...

Background As women continue to be more at risk from eating disorders, gender has often been a focus of concern in transcultural research. Yet feminist, qualitative studies which prioritize the voices of women/girls remain rare within transcultural work suggesting the need for greater interaction between these fields. This article seeks to contribu...

Background: Various mental health and eating behavior variables have been independently associated with predicting weight loss in individuals with obesity. This study aims to investigate a mediation model that assesses the distinct contributions of these variables in predicting weight changes in patients with obesity following an outpatient behavi...

Introducción: La malnutrición se define como la carencia, exceso o desequilibrio de la ingesta calórica y de nutrientes de una persona, esto incluye tres grupos de afectaciones en las cuales se encuentra la desnutrición que incluye la emaciación, la malnutrición y enfermedades por exceso como el sobrepeso, obesidad, diabetes, entre otros. Objetivo:...

Objective Binge eating disorder (BED) is the most common eating disorder, and yet only one pharmacotherapy (lisdexamfetamine), which has known abuse-potential, is FDA-approved. Topiramate is also commonly prescribed off-label for binge eating but has many contraindications. In contrast, the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP1) analog semaglutide has prof...

Resumo A teoria psicanalítica postula que as raízes emocionais dos transtornos alimentares (TAs) remontam à relação precoce mãe-filha. Este estudo qualitativo teve como objetivo investigar os significados atribuídos por mães de pacientes com anorexia e bulimia às experiências de gravidez, parto, puerpério e cuidados básicos oferecidos às filhas nos...

Background Binge eating disorder (BED) is a condition characterized by episodes of consuming large amounts of food and feeling a lack of control over eating behavior. Stress, anxiety, and depression are risk factors for developing BED, which may be particularly relevant for medical students who experience high levels of academic pressure and stress...

Las emociones presentan un rol determinante en las elecciones y hábitos alimentarios. Las emociones presentan un rol determinante en la elección de la calidad y cantidad de alimentos que ingerimos, lo que en ocasiones podría generar el aumento o la disminución del peso corporal. Según la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), los Desórdenes del...

Brain activity in response to food cues following Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) in binge eating (BE) or non-binge eating (NB) individuals is understudied. Here, 15 RYGB (8 BE; 7 NB) and 13 no treatment (NT) (7 BE; 6 NB) women with obesity underwent fMRI imaging while viewing high and low energy density food (HEF and LEF, respectively) and non-foo...

Objective: Weight stigma (social devaluation because of weight) and weight bias internalization (self-stigma due to weight) have been independently implicated in maladaptive eating, which ultimately contributes to poor cardiometabolic health. Additionally, vigilance (being on the lookout for social devaluation) is connected to stress, poor sleep,...

Anak usia prasekolah berisiko mengalami masalah gizi kurang, karena memiliki masalah yang cenderung memilih-milih makanan (picky eating). Gangguan perilaku makan ini dapat menimbulkan dampak pada pertumbuhan anak, meningkatkan risiko kematian, dan apabila semakin parah dapat mengakibatkan anoreksia dan bulimia. Ketika dewasa, masalah perilaku makan...

Aim: Evaluate the roughness, microhardness and color change of different Bulk Fill resins when submitted to the condition of gastroesophageal reflux and bulimia. Methods: 60 specimens (n = 10) of Bulk-Fill composite resins were made: M1 – Filtek™; M2 – Tetric N-Ceram and M3 – OPUS, through a matrix 2x6 mm and light cured by the VALO light source. A...

A obesidade é uma doença crônica, multifatorial, que afeta todas as idades e classes sociais. Esta comorbidade tem avançado em decorrência de diversos fatores e sua prevalência está ancorada em diferentes dimensões como as biológicas, sociais, históricas, comportamentais, saúde pública e política. O presente estudo tem como objetivo caracterizar o...

Os transtornos alimentares são patologias preocupantes, que estão relacionados ao comportamento alimentar e os principais transtornos alimentares são: anorexia e a bulimia. O tratamento desses transtornos alimentares contém um grande desafio para o enfermeiro, pois é importante que o mesmo possua conhecimentos e se dedique diante dos tratamentos, o...

Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has increased the risk of individuals developing eating disorders and has exacerbated existing eating disorders. This observational study investigated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with clinical and subclinical eating disorders. Methods This study was conducted over a pe...

Background: The aim of the present study was to identify eaters profiles using the latest advantages of Machine Learning approach to cluster analysis. Methods: A total of 317 participants completed an online-based survey including self-reported measures of body image dissatisfaction, bulimia, restraint, and intuitive eating. Analyses were conduc...

O objetivo deste artigo é redimensionar a Historik de Jörn Rüsen, a partir do acréscimo de uma dimensão meta-epistêmica às demais dimensões que estruturam o projeto deste historiador alemão. Essa proposta é apresentada como exercício de um sentido próprio de “leitura crítica”, construído em diálogo com teorias sobre a condição de subalternidade dos...

Background Binge eating is a relatively common disordered eating behavior among children, and is associated with poor health outcomes. Executive function (EF)—higher order cognitive abilities related to planning and impulse control—may be implicated in both binge eating and pediatric obesity. Although EF deficits are evident among individuals with...

Background Eating disorders affect millions of people worldwide, but most never receive treatment. The majority of clinical research on eating disorders has focused on individuals recruited from treatment settings, which may not represent the broader population of people with eating disorders. This study aimed to identify potential differences in t...

Introducción: las teorías socioculturales de formación de la imagen corporal sugieren que las presiones ejercidas por determinados agentes sociales fomentan la interiorización de ciertos patrones y el impulso hacia la delgadez por parte de la mujer. Objetivo: analizar un modelo basado en el Modelo Tripartito de Influencia Sociocultural que explique...

Objectives Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms are reported in over 36% of individuals with bulimia nervosa. To date, none of the clinical trials have examined nightmare reduction in this population. We evaluated the effectiveness of prazosin in bulimic females experiencing PTSD-related nightmares. We hypothesized that prazosin will decr...

Background The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 drastically changed the daily lives of the entire population. Despite being efficient in helping to avoid deaths and prevent the collapse of the healthcare system, social distancing can lead to unfavorable outcomes in the physical and mental health of the population, in particular, thos...

It is well-established that stress and negative affect trigger eating disorder symptoms and that the brains of men and women respond to stress in different ways. Indeed, women suffer disproportionately from emotional or stress-related eating, as well as associated eating disorders such as binge eating disorder. Nevertheless, our understanding of th...

Introduction Smoking prevalence in patients with mental illness ranges between two to 4 times higher than general population. This higher prevalence has a multifactorial origin, and some of the possible causes are still unknown. They have a higher prevalence of tobacco-associated diseases and higher mortality. Additionally, these patients have grea...

Introduction Obesity is a major public health problem and some developed countries have declared it ‘the modern day epidemic’. One of the major eating disorders that leads to obesity is BED, which involves consuming large quantities of high carbohydrate food. Studying the factors that cause and contribute to BED can help tackle this major health ha...

Background Eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating, have become a significant health concern among young children and adolescents worldwide. The objective of this study is to examine the probable eating disorder prevalence and associated risk factors among obese and normal-weight children and adolescents aged (5–16 years) in...

The applicability of objectification theory on undergraduate female students from Rio Grande do Sul was analyzed, examining if the constructs of self-objectification, self-surveillance, appearance anxiety and body shame worked to predict disordered eating and depressive symptomatology. Participants were female undergraduate students from Rio Grande...

Background: ASXL3-related disorder, first described in 2013, is a genetic disorder with an autosomal dominant inheritance that is caused by a heterozygous loss-of-function variant in ASXL3. The most characteristic feature is neurodevelopmental delay with consistently limited speech. Feeding difficulty is a main symptom observed in infancy. However,...

Introduction: Eating Disorders (ED), such as anorexia and bulimia, affect about 10% of young people [1]. Physiological and psycho-cognitive comorbidities are commonly associated with ED, including interoceptive deficit [2]. Interoceptive awareness (IA) is the ability to identify, access, understand, and respond appropriately to internal cues (diges...

Durante la adolescencia, existe un mayor riesgo de desarrollar trastornos de conducta alimentaria, relacionados con el miedo a engordar, alteraciones de la percepción de la imagen corporal, y pensamientos obsesivos sobre la comida, lo que puede llevar a enfermedades crónicas y progresivas. Se realizó un estudio de tipo cuantitativo y transversal en...

BACKGROUND: Self-esteem and depressive symptoms contribute to a lower quality of life in people suffering from eating disorders. However, limited research has examined whether other factors may affect how these variables influence one another over time. Metacognition is a previously unexplored determinant that may impact the relationships between s...

BACKGROUND: Data on the sociodemographic, biographical, and clinical factors associated with a lifetime diagnosis of eating disorders (ED) in patients with non-psychotic mental disorders (NPMD) and suicidal ideation (SI) are scarce. METHODS: A cohort study was conducted at the Moscow Research and Clinical Center for Neuropsychiatry. The sample con...

Background: Unhealthy, jumbled eating habits and irregular eating behaviour, often associated with body image and weight concerns, are known as abnormal eating behaviours. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorders are common disordered eating behaviours. Females are more likely than males to experience eating disorders. Objectiv...

Literature suggested that metacognitions are involved in eating problems and may be relevant to the understanding of Binge Eating Disorder (BED). The goal of the current studies was to develop the first self‐report instrument on metacognitions about binge eating. In Study 1, a community sample completed the Metacognitions about Binge Eating Questio...

Background Although the Farsi version of the Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire (F-EDE-Q) is frequently utilized to assess disordered eating in Iran, its factor structure, reliability, and validity have not been investigated in Iranian samples, which is the aim of the current investigation. Method Using convenience sampling, this study recr...

Purpose Eating disorders (EDs) are psychiatric disorders with a typical prevalence in adolescence. EDs have long been wrongly considered female gender-bound disorders, resulting in a systematic underrepresentation of males in EDs research. The main goal of the present study is exploring the clinical and psychological characteristics of adolescent m...

Objective: Eating disorders are associated with subsequent alcohol problems, but it is not known whether this association also extends to broader eating disorder symptoms not captured by clinical diagnoses. We assessed the longitudinal association of broad eating disorder symptoms with alcohol problems in a nationwide twin sample (FinnTwin16). Me...

Objetivo: avaliar os sintomas de transtornos alimentares em estudantes do Curso de Medicina do Centro Universitário Christus. Métodos: o estudo foi realizado com acadêmicos do quarto semestre do curso de Medicina. Utilizou-se um questionário sociodemográfico e antropométrico e os instrumentos Eating Atitudes Test (EAT-26); Binge Eating Scale (BES);...

Inzidenztrends psychischer sowie Entwicklungs- und Verhaltensstörungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen in der ambulanten Versorgung — Entwicklungen zwischen 2014 und 2021 Hintergrund Der psychischen Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen ist insbesondere im Kontext der Corona-Pandemie, sowohl bezogen auf das Infektionsrisiko als auch auf die Eindämmu...

Introduction More information on disordered eating must be accessible among male students. This study explored the disordered eating attitudes and behaviors among Somali male students who came to Bangladesh for further education. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted in January–May 2017 among conveniently selected 356 Somali male studen...

Binge eating (BE) in adults with overweight or obesity (OW/OB) is associated with negative affect and appetitive traits (i.e., food responsiveness, satiety responsiveness, and reward-based eating). While these risk factors may be important intervention targets, they have not been evaluated concurrently, nor for gender consistency. Multigroup struct...

Questionnaires that assess symptoms and risk for ED, such as the EAT-26, present limited features of ED pathology. Also, with the use of the Binge Eating Scale, binge eating can be assessed, but not with other aspects such as cognitive restraint and restraint. Fat phobia through negative attitudes toward weight and obesity is also a prominent indic...

Nutrition transition and globalization have affected the diet and body composition of all life stages including adolescents. This study aims to compare body weight status, psychological distress and disordered eating (DE), and to compare the association between BMI-for-age z-score (BAZ) and psychological distress with DE among Indonesian and Malays...

Introduction: Bulimia Nervosa is a disorder that is becoming increasingly common in adolescents and young adults, although there is no exact cause of bulimia, there are several factors that contribute to the development of bulimia, such as: cultural ideals and social attitudes regarding the body, appearance, self-evaluation on the basis of body wei...

Se realizó una investigación no experimental cuyo objetivo fue identificar la relación entre el IMC, Insatisfacción Corporal y Conductas Alimentarias de Riesgo. Participaron 64 mujeres estudiantes con nacionalidad y residencia en México en un rango de edad de 15 a 25 años, a quienes se les aplicaron dos pruebas para medir Insatisfacción Corporal (I...

Purpose This study aimed to examine the most important problems and needs caregivers of adult inpatients with eating disorders (EDs) are confronted with in their everyday lives. A further aim was to investigate the associations between problems, needs, involvement, and depression in carers. Methods Fifty-five caregivers of inpatients with EDs (26...

Background Having reliable information to make decisions about the allocation of healthcare resources is needed to improve well-being and quality-of-life of individuals with eating disorders (EDs). EDs are a main concern for healthcare administrators globally, particularly due to the severity of health effects, urgent and complex healthcare needs,...

Background: Obesity is primarily a consequence of food addiction. Drugs have been confirmed effective for weight loss more or less related to the functional connectivity in neural networks and metabolic patterns. Recent studies have shown that some anti-diabetic drugs, such as Metformin and Dapagliflozin have similar weight loss effects, however,...