ArticleJournal of anxiety disorders2011
Anorexia nervosa and generalized anxiety disorder: further explorations of the relation between anxiety and body mass index.
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- Shared genetic architecture between eating disorders, mental health conditions, and cardiometabolic diseases: a comprehensive population-wide study across two countries.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Latent anxiety and depression dimensions differ amongst patients with eating disorders: A Swedish nationwide investigation.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2023Article
- Risk factors for eating disorders: findings from a rapid review.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Review
- The Roles of Anxiety and Self-Esteem in the Risk of Eating Disorders and Compulsive Buying Behavior.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Psychiatric and medical comorbidities of eating disorders: findings from a rapid review of the literature.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Review
- In pursuit of biomarkers for predicting susceptibility to activity-based anorexia in adolescent female rats.The International journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Fear and food: Anxiety-like behavior and the susceptibility to weight loss in an activity-based anorexia rat model.Clinical and translational science · 2022Article
- High levels of physical activity in female adolescents with anorexia nervosa: medical and psychopathological correlates.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
- Anorexia nervosa, conduct disorder, and the juvenile justice system: a case of applying traditional treatment modalities in a non-traditional setting.BioPsychoSocial medicine · 2021Article
- Anorexia Nervosa, Anxiety, and the Clinical Implications of Rapid Refeeding.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Global/local processing style: Explaining the relationship between trait anxiety and binge eating.The International journal of eating disorders · 2017Article
- Enlargement of Axo-Somatic Contacts Formed by GAD-Immunoreactive Axon Terminals onto Layer V Pyramidal Neurons in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex of Adolescent Female Mice Is Associated with Suppression of Food Restriction-Evoked Hyperactivity and Resilience to Activity-Based Anorexia.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2016Article
- Does anxiety improve during weight restoration in anorexia nervosa? A systematic review.Journal of eating disorders · 2015Review
- The role of leptin, melanocortin, and neurotrophin system genes on body weight in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.Journal of psychiatric research · 2014Article
- α4βδ-GABAARs in the hippocampal CA1 as a biomarker for resilience to activity-based anorexia.Neuroscience · 2014Article
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Abstract
We explore comorbidity of anorexia nervosa (AN) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and their relation with body mass index (BMI) and evaluate the presence of fasting and excessive exercise which both have anxiolytic and weight loss effects. All participants were female: 32 with AN only, 607 with GAD only, 22 with AN and GAD (AN+GAD), and 5424 with no history of AN or GAD (referent) from the Swedish Twin study of Adults: Genes and Environment (STAGE). Lowest adult BMI differed significantly (p<.001) and was lower in those with AN+GAD than those with AN only (p<.029). Those with AN+GAD were most likely to endorse fasting and excessive exercise, followed by women with AN only, women with GAD only, and the referent. Comorbid AN and GAD may be a particularly pernicious presentation influencing both BMI and proclivity to engage in behaviors such as fasting and exercise that serve both weight loss and anxiolytic goals.
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