Can having a sibling with type 1 diabetes cause disordered eating behaviors?
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Sinem Akgül
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Ayfer Alikaşifoğlu
Abstract
Background
Adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) are at an increased risk of eating disturbances. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the risk of a disordered eating behavior (DEB) also applies to the well sibling sharing the same environment.
Methods
Well siblings were included if they were 10–18 years old, had a sibling with a T1DM diagnosis for at least 6 months and lived with the sibling during the illness. The control group was comprised of healthy participants recruited from the outpatient clinic with no family history of T1DM. Participants completed a four-part questionnaire concerning their eating behaviors that was developed by the study team. This survey aimed to evaluate the dietary habits and eating patterns. All participants completed the Eating Attitudes Test-26 (EAT-26) and a 24-h food dietary recall. Any participant with a high EAT-26 score or that seemed to be at risk according to the questionnaire was re-evaluated.
Results
Eight cases (33.3%) in the well sibling group had either a total and/or subgroup pathological score. Three of them were found to have DEB and one case was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa (AN). In the control group, five cases (17.2%) had either a total and/or subgroup pathological score. Three of these cases were found to have DEB, no cases were diagnosed with an eating disorder. There were no statistically significant differences in the EAT-26 scores between the groups.
Conclusions
Although a direct relationship was not observed, the probability of having a pathologic EAT-26 score was higher in the group with a sibling with T1DM.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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- Frontmatter
- Review
- Prevalence of cranial MRI findings in girls with central precocious puberty: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Original Articles
- Can having a sibling with type 1 diabetes cause disordered eating behaviors?
- Wrist circumference as a novel predictor of obesity in children and adolescents: the CASPIAN-IV study
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- Impact of a group-based treatment program on adipocytokines, oxidative status, inflammatory cytokines and arterial stiffness in obese children and adolescents
- Clinical management of childhood hyperthyroidism with and without Down syndrome: a longitudinal study at a single center
- Detection of distant metastasis at the time of ablation in children with differentiated thyroid cancer: the value of pre-ablation stimulated thyroglobulin
- Random serum free cortisol and total cortisol measurements in pediatric septic shock
- Self-assessment of pubertal development in a puberty cohort
- Growth, the Mediterranean diet and the buying power of adolescents in Greece
- Clinical and molecular genetic characterization of two patients with mutations in the phosphoglucomutase 1 (PGM1) gene
- Genetic analysis of three families with X-linked dominant hypophosphatemic rickets
- Clinical heterogeneity and molecular profile of triple A syndrome: a study of seven cases
- No central adrenal insufficiency found in patients with Prader-Willi syndrome with an overnight metyrapone test
- Case Reports
- A novel mutation in the proopiomelanocortin (POMC) gene of a Hispanic child: metformin treatment shows a beneficial impact on the body mass index
- Hypertriglyceridemia thalassemia syndrome
- Severe consumptive hypothyroidism caused by multiple infantile hepatic haemangiomas
