Association between Soft Drink Consumption and Aggressive Behaviour among a Quarter Million Adolescents from 64 Countries Based on the Global School-Based Student Health Survey (GSHS)
التاريخ
2020-03البيانات الوصفية
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Soft drink consumption has become a significant public health concern that is associated with
various adverse health outcomes.We aim to examine the association between soft drink consumption
and aggressive behavior among adolescents.We used open access data from 79 studies in 64 countries,
including 263,890 adolescents aged 12–18 years who completed the global school-based student
health survey (GSHS). Self-reported data on past 30-day carbonated soft drink consumption (number
of times per day) and past 12-month physical fighting were utilized for analysis. Of the 263,890
participants (48% boys) aged 12–18 years, the weighted mean frequency of soft drink consumption
varied from 0.5 in Kiribati to 2.5 times/day in Surname, while the weighted prevalence of frequent
aggressive behavior varied from to 2.7% in Laos to 49.2% in Tuvalu. We found that each increment
of soft drink consumption (time/day) was associated with an 11% (95%CI 10–13%) increase of the
likelihood of frequent physical fighting. This result remained significant after adjusting for various
covariates. In this large pooled sample of multinational data, there is a significant positive association
between soft drink consumption and aggressive behavior among adolescents. Reducing soft drink
consumption may help reduce aggressive behavior, a major risk factor for violence.
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