The food addiction construct is receiving increasing attention from researchers and clinicians worldwide. Given its rise, scientific production on the subject is increasingly abundant. Conducting studies evaluating food addiction in emerging countries is of great importance, given that most scientific production comes from high-income countries. A recent study aimed to explore the prevalences of orthorexia nervosa and food addiction and their associations with dietary diversity in university students in Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic. This correspondence presents questions about using the older version of the modified Yale Food Addiction Scale to assess food addiction. It also highlights issues related to the prevalence of food addiction observed in the study.
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Human Psychopharmacology Laboratory, Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research (DICBR), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
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Medical Discovery Team on Addiction, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
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Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Design: Systematic review following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines.
Data Sources: Medline, Scopus, Web of Science, EMBASE, LILACS and APA PsycInfo databases, for studies published between 2009 and July 2024.
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From the, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA (GTL); Department of Health Systems and Population Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (GTL); Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA (FWC, KCY-W, MBD, CIC); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA (KCY-W, CIC); and Regional Offices, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland CA (DA, CC, AHA, AE).
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Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research, 55122, Mainz, Germany; Institute of Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, 55128, Mainz, Germany. Electronic address:
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