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The association of eating behavior with risk for morbidity in older women
Author(s)	Nicholas P Hays, Gaston P Bathalon, Ronenn Roubenoff
Journal title	Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 57A, no 2, February 2002
Pages	pp M128-M133
Keywords	Older women ; Diet ; At risk ; Ill health ; Cross sectional surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	Current dietary restraint, disinhibition and hunger of 1252 non-smoking women aged 55-65 were assessed using the Eating Inventory (EI). Subjects also reported the presence or absence of 22 specific morbidities, along with general demographic information. Logistic regression analysis was used to examine the association between eating behaviour scores and morbidity, adjusting for age, previous smoking status, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use, education level, and body mass index (BMI). Higher disinhibition and hunger scores were associated with small alterations in reported morbidity risk for the women in this study. Although the authors' cross-sectional design makes the directionality of these relationships unclear, their results suggest at most a relatively minor independent influence of eating behaviour on long-term health. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-020416228 A
Classmark	BD: CFD: CA3: CH: 3KB: 7T
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