Associations between birth characteristics and eating disorders across the life course: findings from 2 million Swedish males and females born 1975-1998

Introduction Results on developmental origins of eating disorders (ED) have been conflicting, with low power in many studies. We studied the effect of birth characteristics including twin/triplet status; gestational age; birthweight; birthlength; delivery method; Apgar score; birth traumas; mother’s smoking and weight gain during pregnancy. Methods From a total population data, we created a cohort of 2,011,908 males and females born to …