TABLE 3—

Sales of Sweetened Beverages and Parameters of Linear Mixed-Effect Regression Models: Tri-Cities of Northeast Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, and Southeast Kentucky, 2014–2016

Salesa	All Sugar-Sweetened Beveragesb	Sodasc	Fruit Drinksd	Sports and Energy Drinkse	Artificially Sweetened Beverages
Intervention
Before	1638	1159	332	146	547
During and after	1605	1131	321	154	516
Change, %	−2.0	−2.4	−3.3	5.5	−5.7
Comparison
Before	1517	950	415	152	483
During and after	1530	960	411	159	464
Change, %	0.9	1.1	−1.1	4.4	−3.8
Model parameters
Areaf	−41.7	−8.8	−25.4*	−7.5	−11.6
Area × periodg	−8.6**	−7.3**	−1.0	−0.3	−0.8

Note. Models include random intercepts for each county and an indicator variable for each of the 14 data collection periods.

^aSales in oz/capita over 26-wk period.

^bIncludes soda, fruit juice, and sweetened fruit-flavored drinks, sports drinks, energy drinks, and bottled tea or coffee. Does not include artificially sweetened drinks.

^cCarbonated sugar-sweetened beverages (such as Coca-Cola).

^dFruit juice and noncarbonated fruit-flavored sugar-sweetened beverages (such as lemonade and fruit punch).

^eSugar-sweetened beverages marketed for sports (such as Gatorade) and as “energy” producing (such as Red Bull).

^fIntervention vs comparison areas.

^gInteraction term for intervention or comparison area and pre–post intervention, expressed as oz/capita/4-wk interval.

^*P < .05; **P < .01.