Food addiction as a proxy for eating disorder and obesity severity, trauma history, PTSD symptoms, and comorbidity

摘要: Food addiction (FA) is a newly defined yet still controversial condition that has important etiological, developmental, treatment, prevention, and social policy implications. In this review, the case made FA (or high scores on Yale Addiction Scale) may be used as proxy measure for matrix of interrelated clinical features, including greater eating disorder severity, obesity more severe trauma histories, symptoms posttraumatic stress (PTSD), psychiatric comorbidity, well medical morbidity mortality. A Medline search was undertaken using following terms: food cross-referenced with disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia binge disorder, eating), obesity, trauma, comorbidity. The thesis identification acknowledgment concept FA, when integrated into an overall, trauma-focused transdiagnostic treatment approach, are supported can useful in understanding clinically “big picture.” (1) bulimic (2) complex (3) severity PTSD symptoms, (4) intensity (5) (6) their combination. Implications developing strategies discussed. comprehensive management requires careful attention to assessment care incorporates made.