title: [Intake of sugar-sweetened non-alcoholic beverages and body mass index: A national sample of Chilean school children].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To estimate the association between the intake of sugar-sweetened non-alcoholic beverages and body mass index (BMI) in Chilean school children.
  
  
  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.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Nutrición y Salud Pública, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud y de los Alimentos, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Concepción, Chile.
authors.forename: Jacqueline
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Araneda
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Nutrición, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bustos
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Nutrición, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cerecera
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Nutrición, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
authors.forename: Hugo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Amigo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D001628:Beverages / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002677:Chile / Q000453:epidemiology; D019422:Dietary Sucrose; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D050177:Overweight / Q000453:epidemiology; D063766:Pediatric Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
chemical_list: D019422:Dietary Sucrose