Disorders of eating and body image during the menopausal transition: associations with menopausal stage and with menopausal symptomatology (vol 26, pg 2763, 2021)

Results: The women as a whole reported a substantial prevalence of eating pathology, with 28 (12.4%) displaying eating disturbances as reflected by a Global Score of >= 2.3 on the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q). Women in each of the three individual menopausal stages (premenopausal, perimenopausal, and postmenopausal) did not differ significantly from one another in eating and body-image measures. However, MRS scores showed strong associations with most measures of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire, as well as with questions regarding satisfaction with body image. These associations remained little changed even when removing the four psychological items from the MRS score and examining only the association of the MRS somato-vegetative and urogenital items with these outcome variables.