2014/03/06 by Kelly L. Klump, Sarah E. Racine, Britny A. Hildebrandt +5 · 1 citation
Psychology · Medicine · Neuroscience · #Eating Disorders and Behaviors #Menstrual Health and Disorders #Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
paper · doi:10.1177/2167702614521794
openalex publication_date 2014/03/06 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Changes in ovarian hormones predict changes in emotional eating across the menstrual cycle. However, prior studies have not examined whether the nature of associations varies across dysregulated eating severity. The current study determined whether the strength and/or nature of hormone/dysregulated eating associations differ based on the presence of clinically diagnosed binge episodes (BEs). Participants included 28 women with BEs and 417 women without BEs who provided salivary hormone samples, ratings of emotional eating, and BE frequency for 45 days. Results revealed stronger associations between dysregulated eating and ovarian hormones in women with BEs as compared to women without BEs. The nature of associations also differed, as progesterone moderated the effects of lower estradiol levels on dysregulated eating in women with BEs only. Although hormone/dysregulated eating associations are present across the spectrum of pathology, the nature of associations may vary in ways that have implications for etiological models and treatment.