title: Night eating in obese treatment-seeking Hispanic patients with and without binge eating disorder.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the frequency of night eating (NE) and its relation to binge eating disorder (BED), eating-disorder psychopathology, depression, and metabolic variables in treatment-seeking obese Hispanic men and women.
  
  
  METHODS
  A consecutive series of 79 obese monolingual Spanish-speaking-only Hispanic patients with BED (N = 40) and without BED (N = 39) were reliably assessed by bilingual research-clinicians using Spanish-language versions of semistructured interviews and measures.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Overall, 38% (N = 30) of the 79 patients reported regular NE (≥4 days/month). NE and BED were significantly associated; 70% (21/30) of NE versus 18% (9/49) of non-NE had BED. Patients with NE reported greater frequency of binge-eating and higher levels of eating-disorder psychopathology and depression than non-NE patients; group differences in eating disorder psychopathology and depression levels persisted after controlling for BED status. The NE and non-NE groups did not differ significantly in BMI or metabolic variables.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In obese treatment-seeking Hispanic patients, NE and BED were significantly associated and NE was associated with heightened eating-disorder psychopathology and depression even after controlling for BED status.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA. carlos.grilo@yale.edu
authors.forename: Carlos M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Grilo
authors.forename: Vanessa A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Milsom
authors.forename: Peter T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Morgan
authors.forename: Marney A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: White
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D056912:Binge-Eating Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D055815:Young Adult