title: Binge eating and weight concerns among young adults. Results from the Zurich cohort study.
abstract: In the longitudinal cohort study of young adults from the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland, two groups of eating problems were defined: binge eating and weight concerns. Subjects with these conditions were interviewed at the ages of 27-28 and 29-30 years. The binge eaters, mostly women, differed both from subjects with weight concerns and from controls. They had more severe eating problems and more anxiety and depression. Follow-up as well as retrospective data suggest that eating problems are persistent for the binge eaters, and, to a lesser extent, also for subjects with weight concerns. Even so, professional treatment is rarely sought by subjects with eating problems. These findings encourage long-term studies on eating problems in community samples.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vollrath
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Koch
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Angst
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D001835:Body Weight; D002032:Bulimia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D013557:Switzerland / Q000453:epidemiology