103. Wrist Size Among Adolescents With Restrictive Eating Disorders

Abstract

the 15,197 young adults aged 18-26 years old, 26.5% of young men reported attempts to gain weight, including 39.5% of men who were normal weight, 21.5% who were overweight, and 7.9% who were obese by BMI. By contrast, only 4.6% of women reported attempts to gain weight. Young men reported behaviors such as lifting weights (15.7%); legal performance enhancing substances such as creatine, monohydrate, and androstenedione (15.7%); and androgenic anabolic steroids (2.7%). Multivariate logistic regression analyses demonstrated that Black/African American males (Odds ratio [OR] 2.40; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.84-3.13) had greater odds of weight gain attempts than White males. Adolescent males identifying as homosexual or bisexual had lower odds (OR 0.46; 95% CI 0.25 e 0.84) of weight gain attempts than adolescent males identifying as heterosexual. Young men who reported weightlifting to bulk up had less BMI (B¼-0.33 kg/m2, p¼0.023) and weight (B¼-0.87 kg, p¼0.