Department of Psychology and Sociology, Zaragoza University, Teruel, Spain.
Int J Eat Disord. 2013 Nov;46(7):690-2. doi: 10.1002/eat.22148. Epub 2013 Jun 3.
An excess of bulimia nervosa (BN) births during the fall has been recently reported, but this finding has not been yet adequately replicated. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the presence of a seasonal birth pattern in a representative clinical sample of women with BN.
We registered the month of birth of 216 female patients who fulfilled all the criteria for BN according to DSM-IV on admission to a specialized eating disorders service in Spain.
Our analyses showed no significant variation in the season of birth of our BN sample when compared to a general population.
Our data do not support the hypothesis of a season of birth bias in BN.
最近有报道称,神经性贪食症(BN)的分娩量在秋季过多,但这一发现尚未得到充分证实。我们研究的目的是评估在一个具有代表性的 BN 临床女性样本中是否存在季节性出生模式。
我们记录了 216 名女性患者的出生日期,这些女性在西班牙的一个专门的饮食失调服务机构入院时均符合 DSM-IV 中 BN 的所有标准。
与一般人群相比,我们的分析显示 BN 样本的出生季节没有显著变化。
我们的数据不支持 BN 存在出生季节偏差的假设。