Consumption of energy drinks among adolescents in Norway: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Energy drink (ED) consumption is increasing all over the world. We sought to describe the consumption of EDs among adolescents in Norway, and to explore the determinants of daily and high consumption.

Methods

Population-based cross-sectional data were collected from a sample of 31,091 secondary school students in grade 8-13 aged 12-19 years. School grade, residency, socioeconomic status (SES), physical activity and leisure screen time were included in multiple regression analyses, in order to investigate their associations with daily and high (≥four times weekly) ED consumption.

Results

52.3% of the respondents were ED consumers and 3.5% were high consumers. Boys consumed twice as much ED as girls (boys: 36.3 ml/day, girls: 18.5 ml/day, geometric means), an

SUBMITTER: Degirmenci N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6299924 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature