Review Study Indicates There Is An Association Between Eating Disorders And Exercise Addiction

Healio (2/3, Gramigna) reports, “Individuals with an eating disorder are nearly four times more likely to experience exercise addiction than those without one,” investigators concluded after conducting a “systematic review of grey literature and major databases, specifically looking at studies that reported on exercise addiction prevalence among these two populations,” then also conducting “a random effect meta-analysis to calculate ORs for exercise addiction.” Included in the review were “nine studies with a total sample of 2,140 participants with a mean age of 25.06.” The findings were published online Jan. 1 in the journal Eating and Weight Disorders.

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— “Eating disorders increase risk for exercise addiction, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, February 3, 2020

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