Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Traits in Adult Women With Eating Disorders: Defining a Broader Eating Disorder Phenotype

Anderluh, Marija; Tchanturia, Kate; Rabe‐Hesketh, Sophia; Treasure, Janet

doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.160.2.242

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Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Traits in Adult Women With Eating Disorders: Defining a Broader Eating Disorder Phenotype

Published in American Journal of Psychiatry • Jan 31, 2003

Authors:

Marija Anderluh

Kate Tchanturia

Sophia Rabe‐Hesketh

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The authors retrospectively examined a spectrum of childhood traits that reflect obsessive-compulsive personality in adult women with eating disorders and assessed the predictive value of the traits for the development of eating disorders. METHOD: In a case-control design, 44 women with a...

Subject

Bulimia nervosa

Eating disorders

Anorexia nervosa

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