Important Research Initiative for Individuals With Eating Disorders

Ever experienced an eating disorder?

Please take the EDGI survey to help us understand more about these devastating illnesses & make a genuine contribution to the diagnosis, management & treatment of eating disorders.

The Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative (EDGI) is the largest-ever genome-wide association study for eating disorders. EDGI will create the blueprint to identify the causes of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder. The Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative (EDGI) is an international research study designed to understand how your genes can influence your risk for developing an eating disorder.

We know that one treatment doesn’t fit all eating disorders. EDGI will guide us toward a personalized medicine approach including tailored treatment and recovery plans. EDGI will allow us to understand how both genes and environment influence risk for these disorders. The purpose of EDGI is to learn more about how genes influence risk for bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and anorexia nervosa. By introducing this important study to your patients, you can help advance understanding of the genetics of eating disorders and contribute to a future with better treatments!

If you have had anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge-eating disorder at any time in your life, we invite you to take this survey.

If you are a practitioner, please share this with your clients.

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