Health-Related Quality of Life in Obese Presurgery Patients with and without Binge Eating Disorder, and Subdiagnostic Binge Eating Disorders

Table 1

Characteristics for the binge eating disorders group, the sub-diagnostic binge eating disorders group, and the noneating disorders group.

	Binge eating disorders	Sub-diagnostic BED	Noneating disorders
	n = 18	n = 20	n = 99
	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)
Age	39.83 (8.38)	35.45 (10.11)	42.14 (10.15)
BMI	47.21 (6.22)	48.25 (6.17)	47.82 (5.91)
MCS^1	36.56 (15.06)	36.36 (13.16)	44.92 (11.59)
PCS^2	35.44 (12.79)	34.77 (11.14)	32.79 (10.68)
	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)
Obesity onset in childhood	12 (68%)	16 (80%)	67 (67.7%)
Living with partner	13 (72.2%)	15 (75%)	61 (61.6%)
High education^3	2 (11%)	8 (40%)	24 (24.2%)

1Mental component summary.
²Physical component summary.
³1 year or more at college/university.