TABLE 1.
Demographic and eating related variables
| CW (n = 10) |
REC BN (n = 10) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | U | p-value | |
| Study age (years) | 26.3 | 4.7 | 26.6 | 5.0 | 48 | 0.9111 |
| Current BMI (kg/m2) | 22.1 | 2.2 | 22.3 | 1.5 | 45 | 0.7254 |
| High past BMI (kg/m2) | 23.2 | 2.0 | 24.5 | 2.1 | 34 | 0.2395 |
| Low past BMI (kg/m2) | 20.1 | 1.6 | 18.6 | 1.2 | 21.5 | 0.0303 |
| Age of onset (years) | 17.2 | 3.4 | ||||
| Length of recovery (months) | 20.6 | 13.6 | ||||
| BDI | 1.3 | 1.4 | 7.5 | 8.2 | 14.5 | 0.0054 |
| TCI novelty seeking | 20.9 | 5.2 | 23.1 | 8.0 | 37.5 | 0.3615 |
| TCI harm avoidance | 11.2 | 8.2 | 17.7 | 8.4 | 27.5 | 0.0910 |
| Trait anxiety | 27.1 | 4.3 | 45.2 | 12.3 | 5 | 0.0004 |
CW, healthy control women; REC BN, recovered bulimic women, BDI, beck depression inventory; TCI, temperament and character inventory; Trait anxiety, Spielberger state-trait anxiety inventory. U: Mann Whitney U Test.