Terminology matters: 'diabulimia' is insufficient to describe eating disorders in individuals with Type 1 diabetes.

The authors discuss the importance of terminology to describe eating disorder psychopathology among individuals with type 1 diabetes. Topics mentioned include the importance of knowledge about prevalence to inform prevention and treatment approaches, inconsistency in using the term "diabulimia" to describe the purging behavior insulin omission as a symptom of an eating disorder in type 1 diabetes, and multidisciplinary consensus meetings to discuss current research findings and future actions.