Sugar-sweetened beverage intakes among adults between 1990 and 2018 in 185 countries

Laura Lara-Castor, Renata Micha, Frederick Cudhea, Victoria Miller, Peilin Shi, Jianyi Zhang, Julia R. Sharib, Josh Erndt-Marino, Sean B. Cash, Dariush Mozaffarian, Murat Bas, Jemal Haidar Ali, Suhad Abumweis, Anand Krishnan, Puneet Misra, Nahla Chawkat Hwalla, Chandrashekar Janakiram, Nur Indrawaty Liputo, Abdulrahman Musaiger, Farhad PourfarziIftikhar Alam, Karin DeRidder, Celine Termote, Anjum Memon, Aida Turrini, Elisabetta Lupotto, Raffaela Piccinelli, Stefania Sette, Karim Anzid, Marieke Vossenaar, Paramita Mazumdar, Ingrid Rached, Alicia Rovirosa, María Elisa Zapata, Tamene Taye Asayehu, Francis Oduor, Julia Boedecker, Lilian Aluso, Johana Ortiz-Ulloa, J. V. Meenakshi, Michelle Castro, Giuseppe Grosso, Anna Waskiewicz, Umber S. Khan, Anastasia Thanopoulou, Reza Malekzadeh, Neville Calleja, Marga Ocke, Zohreh Etemad, Fatemeh Vida Zohoori

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Abstract

Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are associated with cardiometabolic diseases and social inequities. For most nations, recent estimates and trends of intake are not available; nor variation by education or urbanicity. We investigated SSB intakes among adults between 1990 and 2018 in 185 countries, stratified subnationally by age, sex, education, and rural/urban residence, using data from the Global Dietary Database. In 2018, mean global SSB intake was 2.7 (8 oz = 248 grams) servings/week (95% UI 2.5-2.9) (range: 0.7 (0.5-1.1) in South Asia to 7.8 (7.1-8.6) in Latin America/Caribbean). Intakes were higher in male vs. female, younger vs. older, more vs. less educated, and urban vs. rural adults. Variations by education and urbanicity were largest in Sub-Saharan Africa. Between 1990 and 2018, SSB intakes increased by +0.37 (+0.29, +0.47), with the largest increase in Sub-Saharan Africa. These findings inform intervention, surveillance, and policy actions worldwide, highlighting the growing problem of SSBs for public health in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5957
JournalNature Communications
Volume14
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Oct 2023

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