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Parental disorders, childhood abuse, and binge eating in a large community sample
23 May 2011
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OBJECTIVE: Genetic and nonshared environmental factors are implicated in the etiology of binge eating behaviors (BEB), with genetic risk expressed as parental psychopathology. Traumatic experiences including child abuse predict onset of BEB. It is not clear if each separately contribute to BEB, or whether parental pathology leads to abuse which in turn influences BEB. METHOD: Data were obtained from the National...
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