CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- A long-term study of 100,000 pregnant Norwegian women found an unexpected increase in new incidences of binge eating disorder.
"We need to be very vigilant across the socioeconomic spectrum to screen for the development of disordered eating during pregnancy," lead study author Dr. Cynthia M. Bulik, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. "It’s very important that all women receive adequate prenatal care that includes nutritional support."
The study, published in Psychological Medicine, also found that for women who already had the eating disorder continuation of symptoms during pregnancy was more common than remission. Lower education and lower minimum combined income was associated with new onset cases of binge-eating disorders.
Earlier small clinical studies had suggested that eating disorders often go into remission during pregnancy, just as some pregnant women spontaneously quit smoking cigarettes.
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