Longitudinal patterns of comorbidity between anxiety, depression and binge eating symptoms among patients with obesity: A path analysis.

Background: Depression, anxiety, and binge eating are common psychiatric symptoms among people with obesity. Although many studies seek to understand the mechanisms of association between these psychiatric symptoms, there is no still consensus about the longitudinal association.

Methods: 155 patients (124 women) were recruited from a university-based bariatric center and evaluated over three waves (T0-T1-T2).