Eating Disorders = Adult-Onset Diabetes
For the first time, eating disorders have been linked to adult-onset diabetes.
A large survey study of more than 52,000 adults in 19 countries showed that individuals with binge eating disorder or bulimia nervosa were more than twice as likely to have diabetes.
The study also showed that individuals with depression or intermittent explosive disorder were 30% and 60%, respectively, more likely than those without these disorders to have a diabetes diagnosis.
Lead investigator Peter de Jonge, PhD, told Medscape Medical New that the “particularly strong association” found between eating disorders and diabetes was surprising to him.
“I was aware of the literature regarding an association between depression and diabetes, but this [new study] really adds to the literature,” said Dr. de Jonge, who is a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center for Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation at the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands.
“This is speculative, as the data are not detailed enough to fully confirm this, but these findings suggest that there might be a lifelong pathway in which persons first develop impulse control disorders and depression, which may gradually develop into diabetes. And the role of diet may be significant in this pathway,” he added.
The investigators note that this is the first study to show an association between impulse control disorders and diabetes.
The study was published online January 30 in Diabetologia.
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