Five-year prevalence and persistence of disturbed eating behavior and eating disorders in girls with type 1 diabetes, Diabetes Care No

D isturbed eating behavior (DEB),which includes subthreshold andfull-syndrome eating disorders (EDs) as well as milder eating distur-bances, is more common in girls and women with type 1 diabetes than in their nondiabetic peers (1,2). DEB is associated with poorer metabolic control (1,3) and increased hospitalizations and diabetes-related medical complications (4–7). At baseline of the present study, there were higher rates of DEB in girls with type 1 diabetes 9–13 years of age than in a non-diabetic control group (8 vs. 1%) (8), and baseline DEB persisted in one-half of in-dividuals 1 year later (9). The current brief report summarizes data from base