Unadjusted mean scores of anxiety (measured using the two-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-2)) and depression (measured using the two-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-2)), grouped by frequency of specific soft drink intake, in the sample of students (n 8085) newly enrolled in a comprehensive university in Changsha, China, 2017. (a) GAD-2 mean scores and specific soft drink intake frequency; (b) PHQ-2 mean scores and specific soft drink intake frequency (, soda; , sweetened tea drink; , fruit-flavoured drink). Means, with their 95 % CI represented by vertical bars, were estimated from two-level linear models with students as level 1 and province as level 2