Disordered eating and the meat-avoidance spectrum: a systematic review and clinical implications.

"Declarations Conflict of interestThe authors have no relevant financial or non–financial interests to disclose. Ethical approvalThe following systematic review did not require Institutional Review Board approval. Informed consentFormal consent was not required for this systematic review. Conflict of interest The authors have no relevant financial or non–financial interests to disclose."

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"This systematic review was reported in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement []. A priori registration to PROSPERO was received on 4 May 2021 (registration number CRD42021244365). A manual literature search was conducted in June 2021 in electronic bibliographic databases MEDLINE, PsychINFO, and CINAHL. A combination of search or MeSH terms, appearing in either title, abstract, subject heading, or keyword, were used, including vegan* OR vegetarian* OR “plant based” OR “meat avoid*” OR “meat abstain*”, with “eating disorder*” OR “disordered eating*” OR anorexi* OR bulimi* OR orthorexi* OR “binge eat*”. The reference lists of eligible papers were searched for relevant studies reporting on psychometric properties of eating disorder scales in veg*ans for inclusion."