ArticleAppetite2021
A new, developmentally-sensitive measure of weight suppression.
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- Autistic characteristics in youth with anorexia nervosa before and after treatment.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2022Trial
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- Identifying Distinct Latent Profiles of Executive Functioning Among Adolescents and Adults With Anorexia Nervosa and Adolescent Healthy Controls.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2026Article
- Do Weight Suppression and Body Mass Index Predict Daily Body Image and Eating Urges in Non-Clinical Adults?European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2026Article
- Weight Suppression, Binge Eating, and Purging as Predictors of Weight Gain During Inpatient Treatment in Persons With Bulimia Nervosa.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2025Article
- Weight Suppression and Risk for Childhood Psychiatric Disorders.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Preliminary validation of developmental weight suppression in youth with transdiagnostic eating disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Why are so many individuals with bulimia nervosa low in weight suppression?Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Weight Stigma in the Development, Maintenance, and Treatment of Eating Disorders: A Case Series Informing Implications for Research and Practice.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- TeenGrowth: Individualized Estimations of Weight-Related Risk and Recovery Metrics for Young People With Eating Disorders.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Weight History Correlates of Resting Energy Expenditure in Women With Bulimia Nervosa.The International journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Comparing changes in eating disorder psychopathology and comorbid symptoms over treatment in anorexia nervosa and atypical anorexia nervosa in a partial hospitalization program.The International journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Physiological, body composition, and body mass measures show that a developmental measure of weight suppression is more valid than the traditional measure.The International journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- A novel weight suppression score associates with distinct eating disorder and ultra-processed food symptoms compared to the traditional weight suppression measure among adults seeking outpatient nutrition counseling.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- The moderating role of food cravings in the relationship between weight suppression and eating disorder psychopathology in college students.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The Role of Weight Suppression in Intensive Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa: A Longitudinal Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveWeight suppression (WS) has demonstrated associations with numerous indices of eating behavior, psychopathology and eating disorder prognosis. However, because WS has traditionally been measured as a simple subtraction of current weight from highest past weight at adult height, this calculation is problematic for most individuals with disordered eating, who usually reach their highest past weight during adolescence. Here we propose a new method for computing WS to address this shortcoming, termed "developmental weight suppression" (DWS), and provide a web-based tool for ease of calculation.
methodDWS is calculated as the difference between one's highest premorbid z-BMI (i.e., BMI z-score), and current z-BMI. z-BMIs were calculated using Cole's lambda-mu-sigma (LMS) approach, in accordance with LMS parameters publicly available from the Center for Disease Control (2010). A web-based user interface is available at https://niuxin.shinyapps.io/devws/, making its computation easier and its adoption by researchers simpler. DISCUSSION: By using z-BMIs in place of weights, DWS is more sensitive to the developmentally-relevant factors of age, height, and sex. Preliminary findings suggest that DWS is more strongly related to measures of eating pathology and biological reactions to weight loss than traditionally-computed WS, although more research is needed to test this hypothesis.
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