Energy drinks

Abstract

<jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Purpose</jats:title><jats:p>This research aimed to study patterns of energy drinks <jats:bold>(</jats:bold>ED) consumption among university students and to identify the determinants for their preferences.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Design/methodology/approach</jats:title><jats:p>This cross-sectional study was conducted among 400 students from various departments of Jashore University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh, by convenience sampling. A self-administered, structured questionnaire was used to collect data.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Findings</jats:title><jats:p>About 52.3 per cent of the students were between 21 and 23 years of age, and half of them were male. More than half (53 per cent) of the students had consumed ED at least once in their lifetime. Only 22.1 per cent of these consumers had any knowledge of the ingredients in ED, and 4.3 per cent did not know the possible negative impacts. Bivariate analysis was performed to identify the variables significantly associated with ED consumption among students. The risks of ED consumption were found to be: male gender (Odds Ratio (OR) = 4.04; 95 per cent Confidence Interval (CI) = 2.36–6.92), father educated up to SSC (OR = 18.47; 95 per cent CI = 2.30–148.90) or college and above (OR = 17.01; 95 per cent CI = 2.31–135.60), smoker (OR = 3.87; 95 per cent CI = 1.61–9.35) and doing irregular physical activity (OR = 2.43; 95 per cent CI = 1.23–4.78).</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Originality/value</jats:title><jats:p>ED consumption among university students is high, but their perception regarding the ingredients and potential health hazards is opaque. Therefore, it is imperative that at both community and individual levels, interventions should focus on educating and empowering individuals to make firm and positive decisions concerning their dietary habits and health.</jats:p></jats:sec>

Consumption patterns of energy drinks in university students: A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…The included articles were published between 2007 and 2021 and were performed in several countries: 27 of them were conducted in the USA, [16,17,21,36,40,42,49,52,55,58,59,60,64,69,71,73,75,76,80,82,84,88,93,95,97,99], 8 in Saudi Arabia, [33-35, 37-39, 77, 85], 6 in Turkey, [20,41,42,44,45,96], 5…”

“…in Italy [47,48,72,94,98] and 3 in Pakistan [64,74,90]. Other countries are less represented: 2 of them were performed in the Bahrain [55,63], Bangladesh [60,61], Korea [51,67], Lebanon [53,57], Puerto Rico [46,89], United Kingdom [59,65], and only a study was conducted, respectively, in Bosnia Herzegovina [92], Brazil [70], Canada [83], Caribbean [87], [54], Poland [79], Taiwan [50], Thailand [68],…”

“…The bibliographic and scientometric data for all articles were reported in Table S2. 25 of 71 papers were published on journals which do not have the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) [35,[37][38][39]41,43,45,[52][53][54]60,61,64,67,70,[72][73][74]78,79,87,90,92,95] 18 journals have JIF between 0.219 and 1.883 while 27 have JIF between 2.333 and 7.325 and only one has a JIF above the threshold of 20 [40].…”

Histopathological and Neurotransmitter Changes in Albino Rats’ Brain after Consumption of Energy Drink in Egypt

“…Energy drinks are nowadays become available in local markets everywhere and easily accessible for all people including children and young ones (Hasan et al, 2020). Also, concerns about energy drinks adverse effects are increased worldly as many adverse effects reported in different studies and poison centers of different countries (Hammond et al, 2018).…”

“…Energy drinks are so popular for consumption by athletes, secondary school students, and service members (Higgins et al, 2018). Energy drinks attract young adults because of their distinct taste, vigorous feeling, overcome sleep, improve mental and physical performance, and increase concentration during the study and driving (Hasan et al, 2020).…”