Young women with diabetes have raised risk of eating disorders

Eating disorders are about twice as common among young Canadian women with diabetes as among their non-diabetic peers, shows a case-control study by Jones et al on p 1563. They suspected that eating disorders might be more common among young diabetic women because starting insulin often produces weight gain; such disorders are also associated with an earlier onset of diabetic complications such as retinopathy. They found that both full blown and subthreshold eating disorders were more common among the 356 teenagers with diabetes studied than among 1098 matched controls (10% v 4% and 14% v 8% respectively). Insulin underdosing was a common means of weight loss, and the diabetic subjects with eating disorders had higher haemoglobin A_1c concentrations than those without.

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