ArticleChildhood obesity (Print)2018
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms Are Associated with Overeating with and without Loss of Control in Youth with Overweight/Obesity.
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- Neurodivergence, intersectionality, and eating disorders: a lived experience-led narrative review.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Review
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- Lace Up and Mindfulness: A Randomized Controlled Trial Intervention to Reduce Emotional Eating, Anxiety, and Sleep Disturbances in Latinx and Black Youth.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Obesity and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2022Article
- ADHD and Risk of Childhood Adiposity: a Review of Recent Research.Current nutrition reports · 2021Review
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Association With Obesity and Eating Disorders.Cureus · 2020Review
- Excessive Weight Gain and Dental Caries Experience among Children Affected by ADHD.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Psychiatric Aspects of Obesity: A Narrative Review of Pathophysiology and Psychopathology.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Review
- Associations between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms and eating behaviors in early childhood.Pediatric obesity · 2020Article
- ERP and oscillatory differences in overweight/obese and normal-weight adolescents in response to food stimuli.Journal of eating disorders · 2020Article
- RETRACTED: Is There An Overlap Between Eating Disorders and Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children with Obesity?Nutrients · 2019Article
- The Association between ADHD and Obesity: Intriguing, Progressively More Investigated, but Still Puzzling.Brain sciences · 2019Article
- Eating Disorders Impact on Vigilance and Decision Making of a Community Sample of Treatment Naive Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Young Adults.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere is growing evidence that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and loss of control (LOC) eating, both prevalent in children and adolescents, may be related to one another. However, the relationship between ADHD and overeating without LOC has been largely unexamined, thus precluding an understanding of the independent contributions of LOC and episode size in these associations. The current study sought to examine associations between ADHD symptoms and maladaptive eating by evaluating three different types of eating episodes characterized by the presence/absence of LOC and the amount of food consumed: objectively large LOC episodes [objective binge eating (OBE)], subjectively large binge episodes [subjective binge eating (SBE)], and objectively large overeating episodes without LOC [objective overeating (OO)].
methodsParticipants were 385 youth (M age = 10.89, SD = 2.25) drawn from five different research protocols at institutions across the United States. Participants and their parents completed questionnaires and semistructured interviews to assess ADHD symptoms, OBE, SBE, and OO.
resultsAs hypothesized, negative binomial regressions revealed that ADHD symptoms were significantly associated with OBE, χ
conclusionsThese results indicate the need for future studies to explore possible shared mechanisms (e.g., impulsivity) underlying associations between ADHD symptoms, OBE, and OO. Clinical implications include support for considering ADHD symptoms in programs that target both prevention of LOC eating and obesity more generally.
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