Asian Journal of Biological Sciences1996-3351xxxx-xxxxScience International10.3923/ajbs.2019.373.379FatimaWaseem FatimaRizwan AnwarNida Suhail 32019123Todays adolescent are more concern about their body weight and shape which sometimes give rise to body dissatisfaction, disturbed eating attitude and eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa bulimia nervosa, bling eating etc. Earlier, these disorders had been conceptualized as culture-bound syndromes of the western countries only but several studies had been verified that eating disorders are emerging in Arab world as well. Thus, this present review was planned to highlight the prevalence of disordered eating attitude among adolescent population in different Arab countries. PubMed and Google Scholar were searched for publications on eating disorder among Arab adolescents and only 22 studies which used eating attitude test 26 (EAT-26) for prevalence or incidence of disordered eating attitude were identified from 9 Arab countries and selected for this review. The overall estimated prevalence of disordered eating attitude was 26.94% (n = 10430) in adolescence, which indicates a higher prevalence of abnormal eating attitude among Arabs compared to adolescents population from the USA and sub-saharan African. Prevalence was varied from 11.5% (Egypt) to 49.1% (UAE) in female and 6% (Saudi Arabia) to 36.4% in Oman in male adolescents of Arab countries. Highest prevalence was reported in UAE and Saudi adolescents. Although factors such as family history, sedentary lifestyle, urbanization, increased income and westernization had been found linked with increased prevalence of disordered eating attitude in these Arab countries. Consequences of eating disorders can be severe, thus early detection and its prevention is very necessary which need collaborative efforts of governmental and community-led agencies to establish long-term programs for health education targeting young children and their families.]]>Ochola, S. and P.K. Masibo,2014642440Voelker, D.K., J.J. Reel and C. Greenleaf,20156149158Quick, V.M., C. Byrd-Bredbenner and D. Neumark-Sztainer,20134277286Mathers, C.D., C.E. Stevenson, E.T. Vos and S.J. Begg,2000172592596Sullivan, P.F.,199515210731074Srinivasan, T.N., T.R. Suresh, V. Jayaram and M.P. Fernandez,1995372630Afifi-Soweid, R.A., M.B.N. Kteily and M.C. Shediac-Rizkallah,2002325257Al-Adawi, S., A.S. Dorvlo, D.T. Burke, S. Al-Bahlani, R.G. Martin and S. Al-Ismaily,20024111241130Al-Subaie, A.S.,199819769775Al Sabbah, H. and S. Muhsineh,201716276Al-Subaie, A., S. Al-Shammari, E. Bamgboye, K. Al-Sabhan, S. Al-Shehri and A.R. Bannah,199620321324Mousa, T. and S.N. Beretvas,20162016Musaiger, A.O., F.I. Al-Kandari, M. Al-Mannai, A.M. Al-Faraj and F.A. Bouriki et al.,20162016Eapen, V., A.A. Mabrouk and B.S. Othman,200675360Thomas, J., S. Khan and A.A. Abdulrahman,201054595598Musaiger, A.O., M. Al-Mannai, R. Tayyem, O. Al-Lalla and E.Y. Ali et al.,201360162167Abdollahi, P. and T. Mann,200130259268Latzer, Y., F. Azaiza and O. Tzischinsky,200948189199Shuriquie, N.,19995354360Garner, D.M., M.P. Olmsted, Y. Bohr and P.E. Garfinkel,198212871878Vander Wal, J.S., R.I. Stein and A.J. Blashill,201112267271DeSocio, J. and J. Riley,20122012pp: 218-237pp: 218-237Garner, D.M., M.P. Olmstead and J. Polivy,198321534Ballester, F.D., M.D.G. Blanco, J.P. Maso, C.S. Gurnes and M.F. Avelli,200230207212Szabo, C.P. and C. Hollands,199787531534Babar, N., M. Alam, S.S. Ali, A. Ansari and M. Atiq et al.,200252272276Allihaibi, M.M.,20154939946Fatima, W., R. Fatima and N.S. Anwar,201876267Bano, R., E. AlShammari and S.S. Banu,20132169173Fallatah, A., M. Al-Hemairy and H. Al-Ghamidi,20152015Fatima, W. and L.M. Ahmad,20182018Fatima, W., R. Fatima and N.S. Anwar,20187115121Mousa, T.Y., H.A. Al-Domi, R.H. Mashal and M.A.K. Jibril,201054196201Latzer, Y., F. Azaiza and O. Tzischinsky,201419382394Nasser, M.,198616621625Nasser, M.,1994292530Musaiger, A.O., M. Al-Mannai and O. AlāLalla,201447898900Kazim, A.A., M.S. Almarzooqi and M. Karavetian,20172017Abdelrahim, F.A.A.M., N.H. Abdelmutti and A. Alshaikh,201248186193Bas, M., F.H. Asci, E. Karabudak and G. Kiziltan,200439593599Bas, M., E. Karabudak and G. Kiziltan,200544309315Uzun, O., N. Gulec, A. Ozsahin, A. Doruk, B. Ozdemir and U. Caliskan,200647123126