ArticlePsychological medicine2019
Patterns of diagnostic transition in eating disorders: a longitudinal population study in Sweden.
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- Exploring the links between sensory sensitivity, autistic traits and autism-related eating behaviours in a sample of adult women with eating disorders.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Lifetime and current mental health based on avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder history versus other eating disorder history in the Healthy Minds Study.The International journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Descriptives and genetic correlates of eating disorder diagnostic transitions and presumed remission in the Danish registry.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Integrating "Lumpers" versus "Splitters" Perspectives: Toward a Hierarchical Dimensional Taxonomy of Eating Disorders from Clinician Ratings.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- The impact of genetic risk for schizophrenia on eating disorder clinical presentations.Translational psychiatry · 2023Article
- Emotional food-cue-reactivity in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa: An electroencephalography study.The International journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Associations Between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptom Dimensions and Disordered Eating Symptoms in Adolescence: A Population-Based Twin Study.Behavior genetics · 2023Article
- Binge-eating disorder with and without lifetime anorexia nervosa: A comparison of sociodemographic and clinical features.The International journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Genetics and neurobiology of eating disorders.Nature neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundTransition across eating disorder diagnoses is common, reflecting instability of specific eating disorder presentations. Previous studies have examined temporal stability of diagnoses in adult treatment-seeking samples but have not uniformly captured initial presentation for treatment. The current study examines transitions across eating disorder diagnostic categories in a large, treatment-seeking sample of individuals born in Sweden and compares these transitions across two birth cohorts and from initial diagnosis.
methodsData from Swedish eating disorders quality registers were extracted in 2013, including 9622 individuals who were seen at least twice from 1999 to 2013. Patterns of remission were examined in the entire sample and subsequently compared across initial diagnoses. An older (born prior to 1990) and younger birth cohort were also identified, and analyses compared these cohorts on patterns of diagnostic transition.
resultsAlthough diagnostic instability was common, transition between threshold eating disorder diagnoses was infrequent. For all diagnoses, transition to remission was likely to occur following a diagnosis state that matched initial diagnosis, or through a subthreshold diagnostic state. Individuals in the younger cohort were more likely to transition to a state of remission than those in the older cohort.
conclusionsResults indicate more temporal continuity in eating disorder presentations than suggested by previous research and highlight the importance of early detection and intervention in achieving remission.
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