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A new, developmentally-sensitive measure of weight suppression.

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Abstract
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Weight suppression (WS) has demonstrated associations with numerous indices of eating behavior, psychopathology and eating disorder prognosis. However, because WS has traditionally been measured as a simple subtraction of current weight from highest past weight at adult height, this calculation is problematic for most individuals with disordered eating, who usually reach their highest past weight during adolescence. Here we propose a new method for computing WS to address this shortcoming, termed "developmental weight suppression" (DWS), and provide a web-based tool for ease of calculation.

Year of Publication
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2021
Journal
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Appetite
Volume
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163
Number of Pages
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105231
Date Published
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2021
ISSN Number
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0195-6663
URL
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https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0195-6663(21)00138-0
DOI
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10.1016/j.appet.2021.105231
Short Title
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Appetite
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