Research Article
Eating Problems and Overlap with ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorders in a Nationwide Twin Study of 9- and 12-Year-Old Children
Table 1
Prevalence of EAT-P.
| Groups | Total study groupa (boys + girls) | EAT-P (boys + girls) | % within the group (boys + girls) |
| ADHD only | 903 | 12 | 1.33 | (601 + 302) | (8 + 4) | (1.33 + 1.32) | ASD only | 89 | 1 | 1.12 | (61 + 28) | (1 + 0) | (1.64 + 0.00) | ADHD + ASD | 288 | 16 | 5.56 | (216 + 72) | (9 + 7) | (4.17 + 9.72) | Comparison (no ADHD, no ASD) | 11024 | 43 | 0.39 | (5441 + 5583) | (12 + 31) | (0.22 + 0.56) | Study population (boys + girls) | 12304a | 72 | 0.59 | (6319 + 5985) | (30 + 42) | (0.47 + 0.70) |
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Excluding 62 individuals for whom items were missing on the response variables yielded 12,304 individuals for prevalence analyses. EAT-P: eating problems; ADHD: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; ASD: autism spectrum disorder.
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