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AAP Grand Rounds 4:25 (2000)
© 2000 American Academy of Pediatrics

ADOLESCENT HEALTH

Carbonated Beverages and Bone Fractures in Teenage Girls

Source: Wyshak G. Teenaged girls, carbonated beverage consumption, and bone fractures. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2000;154:610–613.

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A recent study demonstrated that teenagers have dramatically increased their consumption of soft drinks and have, concomitantly, decreased their consumption of milk.1 Excessive carbonated beverage consumption and low calcium intake in the adolescent population has the potential to increase obesity, tooth decay, and osteoporosis, but the risk of these potential, adverse effects is poorly studied. The aim of this study was to confirm previous findings that the consumption of carbonated beverages is associated with bone fractures among adolescent females.2 As part of a larger Harvard School of Public Health study designed to reduce teenage pregnancy, 9th and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Sheryl Ryan, MD, FAAP
Department of Pediatrics, Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY