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Received: 12 August 2017

Accepted: 25 January 2018

First Online: 5 February 2018

Ethics approval

: Ethics approval was granted by the Western Sydney University Human Research Ethics Committee; the National Health Service Research Ethics Committee in the UK, as part of the Health Research Authority; and the Institutional Review Board at Columbia University in New York, USA.

: Not applicable as the project did not report individual data.

: ST and PH receive royalties from Routledge, Hogrefe, and Huber and McGraw-Hill publishers for printed contributions on eating disorders. SM and ST receive honoraria from Shire Pharmaceuticals. PH received royalties from Oxford University Press and receives sessional fees and lecture fees from the Australian Medical Council, Therapeutic Guidelines publication, and New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry. RDC is a statistical consultant to Health Outcome Solutions, in Winter Park, Florida. PH and ST are Editors-in-Chief of this journal, and CM, JA, SM, KP, JA, RDC and SY are on the editorial board. All authors have other published papers cited in this manuscript. SY submitted an alternate version of this manuscript as a part of her PhD thesis.

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