Prevalence of food addiction and its relationship to body mass index
Joint Authors
Ahmad, Ala Yusuf
Sayyid, Amani Muhammad
Source
The Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics
Issue
Vol. 18, Issue 3 (31 Jul. 2017), pp.257-260, 4 p.
Publisher
Egyptian Society of Human Genetics
Publication Date
2017-07-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
4
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Background: Food addiction (FA) is a new terminology that simulates craving for food to drug addiction.
It is recently measured by the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS).
It was speculated that FA is incriminated in the current obesity epidemic.
Egypt is one of the highest African countries in the prevalence of obesity.
Aim: Estimation of the prevalence of FA in Egyptian adolescents and exploration of its relationship to the body mass index (BMI).
Subjects and methods This study included 801 adolescents aged 11–18 years recruited by a multistage cluster sampling technique from preparatory and secondary school students distributed in Cairo.
All the included subjects had their weight and height measured followed by calculation of the BMI then they were interviewed by the YFAS.
The diagnosis of FA was made if there wereP3 symptoms with clinically significant impairment.
Results: FA prevalence was 15.7% in the studied sample.
The most prevalent FA symptom was tolerance which was present in 52.1% of the sample.
FA diagnosis didn’t differ across the different BMI categories; however, all of the FA symptoms showed significant differences in relation to the BMI when classified as normal, overweight and obese except for the symptom of tolerance.
Conclusion: FA exists in one sixth of Egyptian adolescents.
FA symptoms rather than FA diagnosis differed in the different BMI categories.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ahmad, Ala Yusuf& Sayyid, Amani Muhammad. 2017. Prevalence of food addiction and its relationship to body mass index. The Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics،Vol. 18, no. 3, pp.257-260.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-760010
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ahmad, Ala Yusuf& Sayyid, Amani Muhammad. Prevalence of food addiction and its relationship to body mass index. The Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics Vol. 18, no. 3 (Jul. 2017), pp.257-260.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-760010
American Medical Association (AMA)
Ahmad, Ala Yusuf& Sayyid, Amani Muhammad. Prevalence of food addiction and its relationship to body mass index. The Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics. 2017. Vol. 18, no. 3, pp.257-260.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-760010
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 260
Record ID
BIM-760010