title: Eating disoders in type 2 diabetic people: Brief review.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Relationship between type 1 diabetes and Eating disorders is well-known, less information exists on the relationship between type 2 diabetes (T2DM) people and eating disorders.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Review information on the prevalence and impact of type 2 diabetes and eating disorders comorbidity.
  
  
  METHODS
  Search in Medline and PubMed relevant articles on the aforementioned co-morbidity. Review includes articles on epidemiological, clinical and therapeutics aspects.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Disordered eating behaviours may affect around 40% of T2DM people, being the predominant clinical forms: Eating Disorders Non otherwise specified (EDNOS), Night Eating Syndrome (NES) and Binge Eating Disorder (BED), however, population-based estimates of T2DM and ED comorbidity are mandatory to determine the prevalence of ED in T2DM people. The association between both entities has a consequence which is an impairment of metabolic control, associated to increase risk of vascular complications and difficult body weight loss, basis of T2DM treatment.
authors: South Galician Biomedical Foundation, University Hospital of Vigo, P.O. Box 1691, Vigo 36201, Spain. Electronic address: ricardo.garcia.mayor@sergas.es.
authors: Ricardo V
authors: RV
authors: García-Mayor
authors: Porriño Health Care Centre, Pontevedra, Spain.
authors: Francisco J
authors: FJ
authors: García-Soidán
mesh_terms: D015897:Comorbidity; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans
keywords: Binge eating disorder; Eating disorders; Night eating syndrome; Type 2 diabetes