Night eating syndrome: a psychiatric disease, a sleep disorder, a delayed circadian eating rhythm, and/or a metabolic condition?
Expert Rev Endocrinol Metab
; 14(5): 351-358, 2019 09.
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ABSTRACT
Introduction:
Night Eating Syndrome (NES) refers to an abnormal eating behavior which presents as evening hyperphagia consuming >25% calorie intake and/or nocturnal awaking with food ingestion which occurs ≥2 times per week. Although the syndrome has been described more than seven decades ago, the literature has been growing slowly on its etiology, diagnosis, and treatment. Areas covered The proposed treatment options for NES are all at a case-study level. Moreover, our understanding of its etiology, comorbidities, and diagnosis is still premature. We performed a literature review in Medline/PubMed to identify all the studies proposing a management plan for NES and summarized all the existing data on its diagnosis and treatment. Expert opinion To date, none of the proposed treatment options for NES have been promising and long-term data on its efficacy is lacking. The slow growth of evidence on this debilitating but underreported condition may be due to unawareness among clinicians, under-reporting by patients, and unrecognized diagnostic criteria. Objective screening of symptoms during office visits especially for patients at a high-risk for NES will identify more patients suffering from the syndrome.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Transtornos do Sono-Vigília
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Hiperfagia
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Transtornos da Alimentação e da Ingestão de Alimentos
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Ritmo Circadiano
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Síndrome do Comer Noturno
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Transtornos Mentais
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Doenças Metabólicas
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Systematic_reviews
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2019
Tipo de documento:
Article