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Childhood hyperactivity/inattention and eating disturbances predict binge eating in adolescence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2015

K. R. Sonneville ,
J. P. Calzo ,
N. J. Horton ,
A. E. Field ,
R. D. Crosby ,
F. Solmi  and
N. Micali
K. R. Sonneville*
Affiliation:
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J. P. Calzo
Affiliation:
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
N. J. Horton
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA
A. E. Field
Affiliation:
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
R. D. Crosby
Affiliation:
Neuropsychiatric Research Institute and Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Fargo, ND, UK
F. Solmi
Affiliation:
Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit, University College London, Institute of Child Health, London, UK Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, London, UK
N. Micali
Affiliation:
Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit, University College London, Institute of Child Health, London, UK Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
*
* Address for correspondence: K. R. Sonneville, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.(Email: kendrins@umich.edu)
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Abstract

Background

Identifying childhood predictors of binge eating and understanding risk mechanisms could help improve prevention and detection efforts. The aim of this study was to examine whether features of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as well as childhood eating disturbances, predicted binge eating later in adolescence.

Method

We studied specific risk factors for the development of binge eating during mid-adolescence among 7120 males and females from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), a cohort study of children in the UK, using data from multiple informants to develop structural equation models. Repeated assessment of eating disturbances during childhood (mid-childhood overeating, late-childhood overeating and early-adolescent strong desire for food), as well as teacher- and parent-reported hyperactivity/inattention during mid- and late childhood, were considered as possible predictors of mid-adolescent binge eating.

Results

Prevalence of binge eating during mid-adolescence in our sample was 11.6%. The final model of predictors of binge eating during mid-adolescence included direct effects of late-childhood overeating [standardized estimate 0.145, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.038–0.259, p = 0.009] and early-adolescent strong desire for food (standardized estimate 0.088, 95% CI −0.002 to 0.169, p = 0.05). Hyperactivity/inattention during late childhood indirectly predicted binge eating during mid-adolescence (standardized estimate 0.085, 95% CI 0.007–0.128, p = 0.03) via late-childhood overeating and early-adolescent strong desire for food.

Conclusions

Our findings indicate that early ADHD symptoms, in addition to an overeating phenotype, contribute to risk for adolescent binge eating. These findings lend support to the potential role of hyperactivity/inattention in the development of overeating and binge eating.

Keywords

Adolescenceattention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderbinge eatingobesity
Type
Original Articles
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 45 , Issue 12 , September 2015 , pp. 2511 - 2520
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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