EDGE – Eating Disorders: Genes and Environment
EDGE investigates potential genetic and environmental risk factors for eating disorders. The genetic branch is part on an international collaboration and data collected in the EDGE study will be contributed towards the ongoing work to identify genetic correlates of eating disorders by the Eating disorders working group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC-ED). Exposure to bullying and other stressful life events were investigated in a large cross-sectional study with n = 916 participants including individuals both with and without a lifetime history of eating disorders. EDGE is partially funded by a grant from the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority.
Contact person Øyvind Rø (PI) and Selma Lie.
The following publications are based on data collected in the EDGE study:
Wisting L, Johnson SU, Bulik CM, Andreassen OA, Rø Ø, Bang L. Psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) in a large female sample of adults with and without eating disorders. BMC Psychiatry. 2021 Jan 5;21(1):6. doi: 10.1186/s12888-020-03013-0. PMID: 33402149; PMCID: PMC7786911.
Lie SØ, Bulik CM, Andreassen OA, Rø Ø, Bang L (2021). The association between bullying and eating disorders: A case-control study. Int J Eat Disord, 54 (8), 1405-1414. DOI 10.1002/eat.23522, PubMed 33942329
Lie SØ, Bulik CM, Andreassen OA, Rø Ø, Bang L (2021). Stressful life events among individuals with a history of eating disorders: a case-control comparison. BMC Psychiatry, 21 (1), 501. DOI 10.1186/s12888-021-03499-2, PubMed 34645394
Lie, S.Ø., Wisting, L., Stedal, K. et al. Stressful life events and resilience in individuals with and without a history of eating disorders: a latent class analysis. J Eat Disord 11, 184 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00907-8
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