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The relationship between risk of eating disorders, age, gender and body mass index in medical students: a meta-regression.
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- The prevalence of feeding and eating disorders symptomology in medical students: an updated systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Pooled it
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- The Role of LGBTQ+ Vicarious Trauma in Eating Disorder Risk-A Psychological Parallel Mediation Model.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Social and individual factors associated with eating disorders risk among adolescents in secondary schools of Sicily (south-Italy).Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Light and Food: Body Image Moderates the Effects of Chronotype on the Risk to Develop an Eating Disorder.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Eating Disorders in Bangladesh: A Narrative Review.Health science reports · 2025Article
- The relationship between healthy eating obsessions, clinical eating disorder, and health anxiety: the dark side of the pursuit of healthy eating.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The association between food addiction, eating attitudes, self-esteem, and emotional appetite: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Influencing Factors of Disordered Eating Behavior Among Chinese University Students: The Moderating Role of Physical Activity in the Body Status Chain Mediation Model.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Article
- Disordered eating, self-esteem, and physical activity among Tunisian adolescents: public health insights and validation of the Arabic Ede-Q.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2025Article
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- The Risk of Disordered Eating in Fitness Club Members-A Cross-Sectional Study.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- An Umbrella Review and a Meta-analysis of Meta-analyses of Disordered Eating Among Medical Students.Alpha psychiatry · 2024Review
- Eating disorders in medical students: prevalence, risk factors, comparison with the general population.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Body image perception, eating disorder behavior, self-esteem and quality of life: a cross-sectional study among female medical students.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Risk of positive screening for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and night eating syndrome and associated risk factors in medical fellows in Northeastern Mexico: a multicenter study.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeAge, gender and body mass index (BMI) are commonly described risk factors for the development of eating disorders. However, the magnitude of these factors (individually and together) is still not well-defined in some populations.
methodsA systematic search was performed for studies that reported the prevalence of eating disorder risk among medical students using the Eating Attitudes Test-26 (EAT-26) and age, gender and BMI as risk factors. We included studies published in English peer-reviewed journals between 1982 and 2017. A total of 14 studies were included in the analyses, and the meta-regression analyses were performed using mean age (years), gender (proportion of female subjects), and mean BMI (kg/m
resultsUtilizing the EAT-26, the pooled prevalence of at risk for eating disorders among medical students (k = 14, N = 3520) was 10.5% (95% CI 7.3-13.7%). Meta-regression model of age, gender and BMI alone revealed poor predictive capabilities. Meta-regression model of age × gender × BMI interaction revealed statistically significant results with a covariate coefficient of 0.001 and p value of 0.044.
conclusionResults from this sample of medical students provided evidence for the role of interactions between risk factors (e.g., age × gender × BMI) in predicting individuals at risk for eating disorders, whereas these variables individually failed to predict eating disorders. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level I, systematic review and meta-analysis.
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