ECE2023 Eposter Presentations Diabetes, Obesity, Metabolism and Nutrition (355 abstracts)
Eating disorders in an obese Tunisian population: Clinical and nutritional aspects
Zeineb Zemni , Nadia Ben Amor , Faten Mahjoub , Imen Ouderni , Eya Safi , Ben Ali Khaoula , Rym Ben Othman , Ramla Mizouri , Berriche Olfa & Jamoussi Henda
National Institute of Nutrition of Tunis, Obesity Research Unit, Bab Saadoun, Tunis
Introduction: Eating disorders (ED) are very frequent in the obese population. Our objective was to describe the relationship between ED and the characteristics of an obese population (food intake, anthropometric measurements, cardiometabolic complications).
Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study of 100 obese Tunisian patients followed at the obesity unit of the National Institute of Nutrition of Tunis.
Results: The mean age was 46.66±12.32 years. The sex ratio M/F was 0.23. The average BMI was 40.3±6.58 kg/m2. Obesity class I, class II and morbid obesity were noted in 23.5%, 30.5% and 46% of cases, respectively. ED was noted in 84.3% of the cases and was dominated by snacking, compulsive eating, binge eating, night eating syndrome and bulimia in 53%, 52%, 48%, 36.3% and 22.5% respectively. We noted a significant association with the presence of at least one ED and the stage of obesity (P=0.036). Patients with at least one ED had significantly higher energy, carbohydrate and simple carbohydrate intake than those without ED (P=0.011, 0.001, 0.011 respectively) reflecting the poor dietary quality associated with ED. No significant association was found between APCs, anthropometric measurements and metabolic and cardiovascular complications apart from hypertriglyceridemia (P=0.012).
Conclusion: The prevalence of APD is high in obese patients and is associated with poor dietary quality that leads to therapeutic failure. Our results are in agreement with those of DEDENON-MAYER(1).
References: 1-Study and description of eating disorders in obese patients: About 701 cases. Life Sciences [q-bio]. 2008. ffhal-01732994.
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