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Background-Prospective, longitudinal studies of risk factors for anorexia nervosa (AN) are lacking and existing cross-sectional studies are generally narrow in focus and lack methodological rigor. Building on two studies that used the Oxford Risk Factor Interview (RFI) to establish time precedence and comprehensively assess potential risk correlates for AN, the present study advances this line of research and represents the first case-control study of risk factors for AN in the USA.

Objective To examine the clinical features of subthreshold binge eating disorder (BED). Method Participants were recruited directly from the community as part of an ongoing study of risk factors for BED. Forty‐four women with subthreshold BED were compared with 44 women with BED and 44 healthy controls on demographic characteristics, body mass index (BMI), eating disorder symptomatology, and psychiatric distress. Diagnoses were established using the Eating Disorder Examination (EDE). Participants completed the EDE‐Questionnaire, the Brief Symptom Inventory, and were measured and weighed. Results Adjusting for significant group differences in BMI, the two eating disorder groups did not differ significantly on measures of weight and shape concern, restraint, psychiatric distress, and history of seeking treatment for an eating or weight problem. Discussion Given the importance of diagnostic status for access to treatment, further evaluation of the severity criterion specified for BED is needed. © 2000 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Int J Eat Disord 27: 270–278, 2000.

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Striegel-Moore, Ruth H.; Fairburn, Christopher G.; Wilfley, Denise E.; Pike, Kathleen M.; Dohm, Faith-Anne; and Kraemer, Helena C., ,"Toward an understanding of risk factors for binge-eating disorder in black and white women: A community-based case-control study." Psychological Medicine. 35,6. 907-917. (2005 Toward an understanding of risk factors for binge-eating disorder in black and white women : a community-based case-control study ABSTRACTBackground. This study sought to identify in white women risk factors specific to binge-eating disorder (BED) and for psychiatric disorders in general, and to compare black and white women on risk factors for BED.