Correlations eating disorders

Ferron, E, Considine, R.V., Peino, R., Lado, I.E., Dieguez, C., and Casanueva, F.R (1997). Serum leptin concentrations in patients with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and non-specific eating disorders correlate with body mass index but are independent of the respective disease. Clin Endocrinol 46 289-293. 

Self-conscious anxiety, associated with the developmental changes just described, can be exacerbated by parental over-concern, particularly by mothers. Such over-concern occurs more frequently in mothers who themselves have, or have had, an eating disorder or who have been obese. As most family studies have been correlational, it is difficult to know whether family dysfunction contributes to the eating disorder, whether the distortions of eating behaviour in the affected daughter causes the family dysfunction, or whether some common other factor contributes to both (Polivy and Herman 2002). 

A statistically significant season-of-birth variation occurs in patients with eating disorders, the peak season occurring in May, with a peak for younger patients (early teens) in March.63 As I ve already noted, season of birth has also been correlated with other mental disorders, particularly schizophrenia for... 

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