The Fitter I Am, the Larger I Feel—The Vicious Circle of Physical Exercise in Anorexia Nervosa
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1. Study Design and Ethics
2.2. Population
2.3. Variables
2.4. Procedure
2.5. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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AN | Healthy Controls | Student’s t | DF | p-Value | |
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Clinical and socio-demographic variables | |||||
Age (years) | 23.42 (5.59) | 25.50 (3.16) | −1.89 | 61 | 0.06 |
BMI (kg/m2) | 16.78 (2.31) | 21.82 (3.08) | −7.45 | 62 | <0.01 |
EDI-2 total score | 97.29 (46.52) | 28.08 (22.71) | 8.03 | 61 | <0.01 |
Illness duration (years) | 7.32 (2.34) | - | - | - | - |
Physical exercise | |||||
GLTEQ score (MET equivalents) | 63.74 (60.21) | 57.33 (29.54) | 0.49 | 64 | 0.63 |
EAI score | 17.56 (7.16) | 13.58 (4.55) | 2.74 | 62 | 0.01 |
AN | Healthy Controls | Student’s t | DF | p-Value | |
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Body image distortion (BID) | |||||
Self-rated BMI before exercise | 19.016 (4.73) | 21.957 (3.91) | 2.57 | 63 | <0.01 |
Baseline BID (BMI points: kg/m2) | 3.031 (4.84) | 0.136 (1.91) | 3.43 | 58 | <0.01 |
Self-rated BMI after physical exercise | 22.985 (5.95) | 22.749 (4.83) | 1.21 | 52 | 0.23 |
Physical exercise induced-BID (BMI points) | 3.969 (4.46) | 0.792 (2.86) | 3.24 | 52 | <0.01 |
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Di Lodovico, L.; Hanachi, M.; Duriez, P.; Gorwood, P. The Fitter I Am, the Larger I Feel—The Vicious Circle of Physical Exercise in Anorexia Nervosa. Nutrients 2022, 14, 4507. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14214507
Di Lodovico L, Hanachi M, Duriez P, Gorwood P. The Fitter I Am, the Larger I Feel—The Vicious Circle of Physical Exercise in Anorexia Nervosa. Nutrients. 2022; 14(21):4507. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14214507
Chicago/Turabian StyleDi Lodovico, Laura, Mouna Hanachi, Philibert Duriez, and Philip Gorwood. 2022. "The Fitter I Am, the Larger I Feel—The Vicious Circle of Physical Exercise in Anorexia Nervosa" Nutrients 14, no. 21: 4507. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14214507