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Factors associated with the consumption of soft drinks among Brazilian preschool children: national survey of 2006

Overview of attention for article published in Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, August 2015
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Title
Factors associated with the consumption of soft drinks among Brazilian preschool children: national survey of 2006
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Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, August 2015
DOI 10.1590/1413-81232015208.18032014
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Juliana Bergamo Vega, Ana Paula Poblacion, José Augusto de Aguiar Carrazedo Taddei

Abstract

The rising consumption of sweetened beverages such as soft drinks or artificial juices is associated with the prevalence of obesity in Brazil and around the world. This study seeks to verify the frequency of consumption of these beverages among Brazilian children aged 24-59 months and to investigate the association of soft drinks with demographic, socioeconomic and nutritional variables. Using data from the National Survey on Demography and Health of Women and Children - 2006, the eating habits were obtained using the food and drink frequency questionnaire for the seven days preceding the interview, and anthropometry recorded the weight and height of children. Among preschoolers, 37.3% consumed soft drinks and artificial juices 4 or more days per week. The factors significantly associated with frequent consumption of soft drinks were living in regions of higher economic development of the country, in urban areas, belonging to the higher income bracket, with mothers watching TV regularly and excess weight of the child, were associated with consumption of soft drinks and artificial juices 4 or more days per week. Further studies are needed to understand the effective contribution of soft drinks on the epidemic of childhood obesity.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 24%
Student > Bachelor 6 16%
Researcher 4 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 8%
Student > Postgraduate 3 8%
Other 3 8%
Unknown 10 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 24%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 13%
Social Sciences 5 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Other 4 11%
Unknown 13 34%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 August 2015.
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#16,721,208
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
#1,055
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#155,918
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Outputs of similar age from Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
#18
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