ArticleNutrients2020
Association of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Frequency with Adiposity: Evidence from the "Children of 1997" Birth Cohort.
Article in Nutrients, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Urinary Sweeteners and Sugars in Relation to Childhood Obesity: The SWEET Project.The Journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- Association between sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and childhood overweight and obesity: a cross-sectional study in Beijing, China.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Environment- and epigenome-wide association study of obesity in 'Children of 1997' birth cohort.eLife · 2023Article
- The association between healthy beverage index and sarcopenic obesity among women with overweight and obesity: a cross-sectional study.BMC endocrine disorders · 2023Article
- Fructose Intake, Hypertension and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Children and Adolescents: From Pathophysiology to Clinical Aspects. A Narrative Review.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Review
- Association of genetically predicted blood sucrose with coronary heart disease and its risk factors in Mendelian randomization.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundObservationally, sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption is associated with adiposity in Western children but could be confounded. We examined the association of SSB frequency with adiposity in the non-Western setting of Hong Kong.
methodsWe examined the associations of SSB consumption frequency at 11 and 13 years assessed by using a food frequency questionnaire with subsequent body mass index (BMI) z-score and overweight/obesity up to 18 years using generalized estimating equations, and with waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, and body fat percentage at 16-19 years using linear regression in a population-representative Chinese birth cohort "Children of 1997" (
resultsAt 11 and 13 years, 6.8% and 8.2% of children respectively consumed SSB daily. Neither SSB frequency at 11 nor at 13 years was associated with subsequent BMI z-score or overweight/obesity up to 18 years, or with waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, or body fat percentage at 16-19 years adjusted for age, sex, socioeconomic position, health status, physical activity and other food consumption, although bias to the null from under-reporting cannot be eliminated.
conclusionAlthough we cannot definitively exclude a small association of SSB frequency with adiposity, lack of association of SSB frequency with adiposity in a non-Western setting with low SSB consumption suggests that the role of SSB in adiposity appears to be minor.
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