Predictors of Treatment Outcome in Persons With Anorexia Nervosa: On the Practice of Regressing Body Mass Index at the End of Treatment on Body Mass Index at Baseline

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-596047
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.59604

Meule, Adrian

; Kolar, David R.

; Voderholzer, Ulrich

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Abstract

Objective It is often stated that a higher body mass index (BMI) at the beginning of treatment predicts a better weight outcome at the end of treatment in persons with anorexia nervosa (AN). However, this interpretation is based on the between-persons relationship of BMI at the two measurements, which primarily reflects the fact that the rank-ordering of persons according to their BMI is quite ...