Adolescents with premenstrual syndrome: not only what you eat but also how you eat matters!
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Kubra Isgin-Atici
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Sinem Akgül
Abstract
Background
Current literature suggests that diet is involved in either the development of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) or contributes to symptom severity, but to date, there are no studies evaluating eating attitudes of adolescents with PMS. The aim of this study was to evaluate dietary intake and eating attitudes in adolescents with PMS.
Methods
This study was conducted with 383 adolescents (214 with and 169 without PMS), aged 13–19 years. PMS was diagnosed using the premenstrual syndrome scale (PMSS). The Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) and 24-h dietary recall were used to assess dietary intake. The Eating Attitudes Test-26 (EAT-26) and Three Factor Eating Questionnaire-Revised 18 (TFEQ-R18) were used to evaluate eating attitudes. Anthropometrical measurements and bone mineral content were measured.
Results
PMS prevalence was 55.9% according to PMSS subscales. Disordered eating attitudes determined by EAT-26 was detected in 23.8% in the PMS group and 11.8% of the control group (p<0.05). In the PMS group, total TFEQ-R18 score, emotional eating behavior and uncontrolled eating behavior scores were significantly higher (p<0.001). Whereas no significant difference in dietary intake, anthropometrical measurements or bone mineral content was observed between the two groups.
Conclusions
This is the first study documenting that not dietary intake but eating attitudes can be associated with PMS in adolescents. It is important to understand the relationship between disordered eating behaviors and PMS as both conditions may trigger the other.
Acknowledgments
The authors thank to Professor Erdem Karabulut, PhD for statistical analysis of data.
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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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Original Articles
- Carotid intima media thickness and associations with serum osteoprotegerin and s-RANKL in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus with increased risk for endothelial dysfunction
- Cardiometabolic risk factors in preschool children with abdominal obesity from Medellín, Colombia
- Long-term follow-up of gonadal dysfunction in morbidly obese adolescent boys after bariatric surgery
- Prevalence of overweight and obesity and anthropometric reference centiles for Albanian children and adolescents living in four Balkan nation-states
- High urate concentration is associated with elevated blood pressure in schoolchildren
- The association of hs-CRP and fibrinogen with anthropometric and lipid parameters in non-obese adolescent girls with polycystic ovary syndrome
- Leptin and adiposity as mediators on the association between early puberty and several biomarkers in European adolescents: the HELENA Study
- Adolescents with premenstrual syndrome: not only what you eat but also how you eat matters!
- Thyroid dysfunction in children with leukemia over the first year after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
- Morning vs. bedtime levothyroxine administration: what is the ideal choice for children?
- Basal characteristics and first year responses to human growth hormone (GH) vary according to diagnostic criteria in children with non-acquired GH deficiency (naGHD): observations from a single center over a period of five decades
- The prevalence and volumetry of pituitary cysts in children with growth hormone deficiency and idiopathic short stature
- SHOX gene deletion screening by FISH in children with short stature and Madelung deformity and their characteristics
- FGFR3-related hypochondroplasia: longitudinal growth in 57 children with the p.Asn540Lys mutation
- Case Reports
- A variable course of Cushing’s disease in a 7 year old: diagnostic dilemma
- Severe hyperchylomicronemia in two infants with novel APOC2 gene mutation
