background: during the month of ramadan, millions of muslims abstain from food and drink daily from dawn to sunset and people actually experience repeated cycles of fasting and refeeding. menstruation is a normal physiological process that its regularity is controlled by hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis. etiology of menstrual dysfunction includes weight loss, hypoleptinemia, abnormal eating ...

Binge eating disorder and purging disorder have gained recognition as distinct eating disorder diagnoses, but risk factors for these conditions have not yet been established. This study aimed to evaluate a prospective, mediational model of risk for the full range of binge eating and purging eating disorders, with attention to possible diagnostic differences. Specific aims were to determine, fir...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have found associations between maternal and family factors and child eating disorder symptoms. However, it is not clear whether family factors predict eating disorder symptoms specifically, or relate to more general child psychopathology, of which eating disorder symptoms may be one component. This study aimed to identify maternal and family factors that may predict...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated the significance of purging behavior in the diagnosis of eating disorders through an objective assessment of eating disorder psychopathology including personality disorders. METHODS Subjects were 42 consecutive outpatients with eating disorders who visited the Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic at Tokai University Hospital (Kanagawa, Japan). Diagnosis of eating and personali...

This study examines the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) men with eating disorders. A total of 388 white, black, and Latino LGB men and women were sampled from community venues. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) diagnoses of anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder were assessed using the World Health Org...

this research was designed to investigate the eating disorders among the female students residing in the dormitory of kermanshah university of medical sciences. in this cross sectional research, 578 of female students residing in the dormitory of kermanshah university of medical sciences were chosen by stratified random sampling. based on the eating disorders diagnosis scale, (0.2%) of the part...