The majority of professionally active women diagnosed with eating disorders may be at risk of work addiction: an overlooked comorbidity.

These initial results suggest that WA may be highly prevalent among professionally active women diagnosed with EDs. Functioning of individuals with EDs in the workplace is a vastly understudied issue which merits more attention owing to high suicide risk and mortality due to health complications, particularly cardiovascular disease (CVD), related to EDs and overworking, a significant prevalence of subclinical EDs in female populations (especially among youth), and a typically worse prognosis for EDs comorbid with other disorders. Both problematic behaviors are related to denial, which suggests that these may be much more prevalent problems than current estimates indicate.