Table 3.
Prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and number of its components stratified by sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) intake among children and adolescents aged 7–18 years (n 5258) from three cities in urban China, September 2013–June 2014
| Non-SSB drinker (0 servings/d) (n 1756) | Medium intake (0–0·3 servings/d) (n 1931) | High intake (>0·3 servings/d) (n 1571) | P value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| 0 component | 1117 | 21·2 | 1231 | 23·4 | 907 | 18·8 | 0·006† |
| 1 component | 463 | 8·8 | 501 | 9·5 | 449 | 8·5 | |
| 2 components | 137 | 2·6 | 151 | 2·9 | 158 | 3·0 | |
| 3 components | 31 | 0·6 | 42 | 0·8 | 47 | 0·9 | |
| 4 components | 7 | 0·1 | 5 | 0·1 | 10 | 0·2 | |
| 5 components | 1 | 0·0 | 1 | 0·0 | 0 | 0·0 | |
| MetS | |||||||
| Age <10 years | 10 | 0·5 | 8 | 0·4 | 5 | 0·3 | 0·749 |
| Age ≥10–<16 years | 21 | 0·9 | 30 | 1·2 | 34 | 1·4 | 0·526 |
| Age ≥16 years | 8 | 0·9 | 9 | 1·1 | 17 | 2·0 | 0·655 |
| Total | 39 | 0·7 | 47 | 0·9 | 56 | 1·1* | 0·038† |
*
P < 0·05, non-SSB drinker v. high intake, assessed by the χ2 test.
†
P < 0·05 among the three groups of SSB intake, assessed by the χ2 test.