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Record W4408258967 · doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2025.02.035

The prevalence and characterisation of energy drink consumption in North America: A systematic review

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Guadalupe García, Jasjit S. Ahluwalia, Cristina Candal‐Pedreira, Ana Teijeiro, Julia Rey‐Brandariz, Carla Guerra-Tort, Nerea Mourino, Beatriz Casal Acción, Leonor Varela‐Lema, Mónica Pérez‐Ríos

Bibliographic record

VenuePublic Health · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicCoffee research and impacts
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersPlan Nacional sobre Drogas
KeywordsSystematic reviewEnvironmental healthConsumption (sociology)MedicineMEDLINEGeographyPolitical scienceSociologySocial science

Abstract

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OBJECTIVES: Energy drinks (ED), which contain high levels of caffeine, are widely popular and their consumption is increasing, especially among young people who may have limited understanding of the associated risks. The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence of ED consumption in North America (Canada, Mexico and the US) and to characterise ED consumers. STUDY DESIGN: Systematic review. METHODS: A systematic review of studies estimating the prevalence of ED consumption was conducted. The characteristics of the studies, populations included, consumption assessment and prevalence of consumption were recorded. Study quality was evaluated using an adaptation of the Newcastle-Ottawa scale. A descriptive analysis of the results was performed. RESULTS: In total, 91 studies conducted in North America were included. All studies were of low to moderate quality. The prevalence of ED consumption was assessed using different temporalities in different studies, which made it impossible to reach a conclusion about the prevalence in North America. Across all populations and temporalities, a considerable range of ED prevalence was observed. It is noteworthy that in studies of university students, weekly ED consumptions >60 % were reported. ED consumption was associated with being male and the co-consumption of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana or cannabis. CONCLUSIONS: Results show that ED consumption was highly heterogeneous and widely prevalent, especially among younger populations. This review provides information to help guide and design appropriate public health measures and strategies.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.028
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: Systematic review
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.978
Threshold uncertainty score0.043

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.028
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0060.006
Bibliometrics0.0130.013
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.107
GPT teacher head0.415
Teacher spread0.308 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSystematic review
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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