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Temporal trends of carbonated soft-drink consumption among adolescents aged 12–15 years from eighteen countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2024

Lee Smith ,
Guillermo Felipe López Sánchez Open the ORCID record for Guillermo Felipe López Sánchez [Opens in a new window] ,
Mark A Tully ,
Masoud Rahmati ,
Hans Oh ,
Karel Kostev ,
Laurie T. Butler ,
Yvonne Barnett ,
Helen Keyes  and
Jae Il Shin
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Lee Smith
Affiliation:
Centre for Health Performance and Wellbeing, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
Guillermo Felipe López Sánchez*
Affiliation:
Division of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Mark A Tully
Affiliation:
School of Medicine, Ulster University, Londonderry, Northern Republic of Ireland, UK
Masoud Rahmati
Affiliation:
Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Vali-E-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Rafsanjan, Iran
Hans Oh
Affiliation:
Suzanne Dworak Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Karel Kostev
Affiliation:
University Clinic of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
Laurie T. Butler
Affiliation:
Centre for Health Performance and Wellbeing, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
Yvonne Barnett
Affiliation:
Centre for Health Performance and Wellbeing, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
Helen Keyes
Affiliation:
School of Psychology and Sport Science, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
Jae Il Shin*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea Severance Underwood Meta-Research Center, Institute of Convergence Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Ai Koyanagi
Affiliation:
Research and Development Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Dr. Antoni Pujadas, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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*Corresponding authors: Dr Guillermo Felipe López Sánchez, email gfls@um.es; Prof. Jae Il Shin, email shinji@yuhs.ac
*Corresponding authors: Dr Guillermo Felipe López Sánchez, email gfls@um.es; Prof. Jae Il Shin, email shinji@yuhs.ac
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Abstract

Carbonated soft-drink consumption is detrimental to multiple facets of adolescent health. However, little is known about temporal trends in carbonated soft-drink consumption among adolescents, particularly in non-Western countries. Therefore, we aimed to examine this trend in representative samples of school-going adolescents from eighteen countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Cross-sectional data from the Global School-based Student Health Survey 2009–2017 were analysed. Carbonated soft-drink consumption referred to drinking carbonated soft-drinks at least once per day in the past 30 d. The prevalence of carbonated soft-drink consumption was calculated for each survey, and crude linear trends were assessed by linear regression models. Data on 74 055 students aged 12–15 years were analysed (mean age 13·9 (sd 1·0) years; 49·2 % boys). The overall mean prevalence of carbonated soft-drink consumption was 42·1 %. Of the eighteen countries included in the study, significant decreasing, increasing and stable trends of carbonated soft-drink consumption were observed in seven, two and nine countries, respectively. The most drastic decrease was observed in Kuwait between 2011 (74·4 %) and 2015 (51·7 %). Even in countries with significant decreasing trends, the decrease was rather modest, while some countries with stable trends had very high prevalence across time (e.g. Suriname 80·5 % in 2009 and 79·4 % in 2016). The prevalence of carbonated soft-drink consumption was high in all countries included in the present analysis, despite decreasing trends being observed in some. Public health initiatives to reduce the consumption of carbonated soft-drink consumption among adolescents are urgently required.

Keywords

Carbonated soft-drinksSugar-sweetened beveragesTemporal trendsAdolescentsMulti-countryEpidemiology
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Research Article
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British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 131 , Issue 9 , 14 May 2024 , pp. 1633 - 1640
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Nutrition Society

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