Impact of Knowledge of Health Conditions on Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake Varies Among US Adults

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Health Promot
• Personal Author:
  Park, Sohyun ; Lundeen, Elizabeth A. ; Pan, Liping ; Blanck, Heidi M.
• Description:
  Purpose
  
  This study examined associations between knowledge of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB)-related health conditions and SSB intake among US adults.
  
  Design
  
  Quantitative, cross-sectional study.
  
  Subject
  
  The 2014 SummerStyles survey data for 4163 US adults (≥18 years) were used.
  
  Measures
  
  The outcome measure was frequency of SSB intake (regular soda, fruit drinks, sports or energy drinks, sweetened coffee/tea drinks). Exposure measures were knowledge of 6 SSB-related health conditions: weight gain, diabetes, cavities, high cholesterol, heart disease, and hypertension.
  
  Analysis
  
  Six logistic regression models were used to estimate adjusted odds ratios (ORs) for consuming SSBs ≥2 times/d according to knowledge of SSB-related health conditions.
  
  Results
  
  Overall, 37.8% of adults reported consuming SSBs ≥2 times/d. Although most adults identified that weight gain (80.2%), diabetes (73.6%), and cavities (71.8%) are related to drinking SSBs, fewer adults identified high cholesterol (24.1%), heart disease (31.5%), and hypertension (33.0%) as being related to drinking SSBs. Crude analyses indicated that lower SSB intake was significantly associated with knowledge of the associations between SSBs and weight gain, diabetes, cavities, and heart disease. However, after adjustment for covariates, only lack of knowledge of the association between heart disease and SSBs was significantly associated with consuming SSBs ≥2 times/d (OR = 1.29) than non-SSB consumers.
  
  Conclusions
  
  The finding that knowledge of SSB-related health conditions, in general, was not associated with high SSB intake suggests that knowledge on SSB-related health conditions alone may not be sufficient for adult behavior change.
  
  
• Keywords:
  Adolescent Adult Adults Aged Aged, 80 And Over Beverages Cross-Sectional Studies Dietary Sucrose Eating Female Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Humans Knowledge Male Middle Aged Nutrition Surveys Sociodemographic Characteristics Socioeconomic Factors Sugar-sweetened Beverages Young Adult

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• Source:
  Am J Health Promot. 32(6):1402-1408
• Pubmed ID:
  28664774
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5575990
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  32
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9187b0a9ec8280455a21ac1f0b642c9897a662ba2bfc946b437f23ab15743eb4
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/47863/cdc_47863_DS1.pdf
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