Food addiction is strongly associated with type 2 diabetes.

Background & Aims: Individuals can develop an addiction-like attraction towards highly processed foods, which has led to the conceptualization of food addiction, a phenotype linked to obesity. In this study, we investigated whether food addiction is associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D).

Methods: 1699 adults from the general population and 1394 adults from a population with clinically verified mental disorder completed a cross-sectional survey including the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.

Psychometric validation of the full Yale food addiction scale for children 2.0 among adolescents from the general population and adolescents with a history of mental disorder.

Objective: Food addiction is a phenotype characterised by an addiction-like attraction to highly processed foods. Adolescence is a sensitive period for developing addictive disorders. Therefore, a valid measure to assess food addiction in adolescents is needed.

The effect of the Development and Well-Being Assessment as an adjunct to standard referral letters on referral decisions by child and adolescent mental health services - a randomized feasibility trial.

High rejection rates for referrals to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) are common. The most cited reasons for rejection are that the child does not have a clinical need for assessment and poor quality of the referrals. However, studies of interventions aimed at improving appropriateness of referrals are sparse.

Food addiction comorbid to mental disorders in adolescents: a nationwide survey and register-based study.

Purpose: Adolescence is a high-risk period for development of addictive behavior. This may also apply to addiction-like eating of highly processed foods-commonly referred to as "food addiction". Adolescents with mental disorder may be at particularly elevated risk of developing food addiction as addiction often accompanies mental disorder.

Help-seeking pathways prior to referral to outpatient child and adolescent mental health services.

Aim: To investigate parental help-seeking patterns prior to referral to outpatient child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), and whether type of symptoms or duration of mental health problems prior to referral influence help-seeking.

Setting: Child mental health services in Denmark involve several sectors collaborating based on stepped-care principles. Access to CAMHS is free of charge but requires a formal referral.

Validation of the dimensional Yale Food Addiction Scale for Children 2.0 and estimation of the weighted food addiction score in a sample of adolescents from the general population.

Purpose: Obesity among adolescents is becoming increasingly prevalent and "food addiction" (addiction-like attraction to foods with high content of fat and refined carbohydrates) may be a potential contributor to this development. This study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the dimensional Yale Food Addiction Scale for Children version 2.0 (dYFAS-C 2.

Food addiction comorbid to mental disorders: A nationwide survey and register-based study.

Objective: Substance use disorder is highly prevalent among individuals with mental disorders. However, it remains largely unknown whether this is also the case for "food addiction"-a phenotype characterized by an addiction-like attraction to predominantly highly processed foods with a high content of refined carbohydrates and fat. Therefore, the primary aim of this study was to estimate the weighted prevalence of food addiction among individuals with mental disorders.

Medical disorders in a Danish cohort of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Studies have identified a higher prevalence of co-existing psychiatric and medical disorders in children with ADHD. There is a shortage of longitudinal studies providing an overview of potential medical disorders in children with ADHD. The objective of this study was to provide a broad overview of lifetime prevalence and relative risk of medical disorders in a nationwide Danish cohort of children with and without ADHD during the first 12 years of life.

Non-specific diagnoses are frequent in patients hospitalized after calling 112 and their mortality is high - a register-based Danish cohort study.

Background: The number of patients calling for an ambulance increases. A considerable number of patients receive a non-specific diagnosis at discharge from the hospital, and this could imply less serious acute conditions, but the mortality has only scarcely been studied. The aim of this study was to examine the most frequent sub-diagnoses among patients with hospital non-specific diagnoses after calling 112 and their subsequent mortality.

Validation of the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 and estimation of the population prevalence of food addiction.

Background & Aims: Food addiction (FA) is likely to contribute to the global obesity epidemic. Most studies of FA have been conducted within clinical and/or highly selected populations, suggesting that prevalence estimates of FA may be biased. This is problematic as valid estimates of the population prevalence of FA is a requirement for informing and designing public health initiatives focusing on this phenotype.

Diagnosis and mortality of emergency department patients in the North Denmark region.

Background: Emergency departments handle a large proportion of acute patients. In 2007, it was recommended centralizing the Danish healthcare system and establishing emergency departments as the main common entrance for emergency patients. Since this reorganization, few studies describing the emergency patient population in this new setting have been carried out and none describing diagnoses and mortality.