
Binge Eating Disorder Facts
- 8 percent of American adults suffer from binge eating disorder in their lifetime.1
- Approximately half of the risk for BED is genetic.2
- Nearly half of BED patients have a comorbid mood disorder. 2
- More than half of BED patients have comorbid anxiety disorders. 2
- Nearly 1 in 10 BED patients have a comorbid substance abuse disorder, usually alcohol use. 2
- Binge eating or loss-of-control eating may be as high as 25 percent in post-bariatric patients. 3
- 30 percent of higher weight patients attempting to lose weight in clinical settings meet diagnostic criteria for binge eating disorder (BED) and/or bulimia nervosa (BN). 4
- Hudson, J. I., Hiripi, E., Pope, H. G., & Kessler, R. C. (2007). The prevalence and correlates of eating disorders in the national comorbidity survey replication. Biological Psychiatry, 61(3), 348–358.
- Ulfvebrand, S., Birgegard, A., Norring, C., Hogdahl, L., & von Hausswolff-Juhlin, Y. (2015). Psychiatric comorbidity in women and men with eating disorders results from a large clinical database. Psychiatry Research, 230(2), 294-299.
- Berkman ND, Brownley KA, Peat CM, Lohr KN, Cullen KE, Morgan LC, Bann CM, Wallace IF, Bulik CM. Management and Outcomes of Binge-Eating Disorder. Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 160.
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11466589
Recovery from binge eating disorder is possible
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