Abstract

ARANEDA, Jacqueline; BUSTOS, Patricia; CERECERA, Francisco  and  AMIGO, Hugo. Intake of sugar-sweetened non-alcoholic beverages and body mass index: A national sample of Chilean school children. Salud pública Méx [online]. 2015, vol.57, n.2, pp.128-134. ISSN 0036-3634.

Objective. To estimate the association between the intake of sugar-sweetened non-alcoholic beverages and body mass index (BMI) in Chilean school children. Materials and methods. Food consumption frequency data were analyzed for school children aged 6 to 18. The association between consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and BMI was estimated by multivariate lineal regression models. Results. Sugar-sweetened beverages are consumed on a daily basis by 92% (95%CI:90-94) of subjects with daily intake medians of 424 mL (p25-p75:212-707). Every extra daily portion of sugar-sweetened beverages consumed by school children aged 6 to 13 is associated with 0.13 BMI z-scores (95%CI:0.04-0.2;p=0.01). Conclusions. School children consume sugar-sweetened beverages daily with intake medians close to 0.5L. There is an association between sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and higher BMI in Chilean school children.

Keywords : beverages; body mass index; children; adolescents; Chile.

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