Multiple mediation of the association between childhood emotional abuse and adult obesity by anxiety and bulimia - a sample from bariatric surgery candidates and healthy controls

• Main Authors: Hongwei Zhang (Author), Ziqi Liu (Author), Hui Zheng (Author), Ting Xu (Author), Lin Liu (Author), Tao Xu (Author), Ti-Fei Yuan (Author), Xiaodong Han (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Bulimia, which means a person has episodes of eating a very large amount of food (bingeing) during which the person feels a loss of control over their eating, is the most primitive reason for being overweight and obese. The extended literature has indicated that childhood emotional abuse ha...