<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Energy drink (ED) consumption, even mixed with alcohol, is popular among adolescents and young adults. The side effects of ED are attributed to their active ingredients and their cumulated effect. A cross-sectional study to identify university students’ ED consumption habit was realized. A small sample size (n = 10) experiment examining the effect of ED consumption on arterial blood pressure and heart rate was carried out.</p><p>From the total number of 240 interviewed students, 87.1% consumed ED at least once, and one third of them did so on a monthly basis. Students consume energy drinks mainly for its taste, very rarely for studying. Differences in consumption place preferences were observed between sexes, females preferring bars, while males the dormitory. We have demonstrated the increase of systolic blood pressure (SBP) for one type of energy drink in young and healthy volunteer students. Other changes in blood pressure and heart rate were not observed.</p></abstract>

Energy drink (ED) consumption, even mixed with alcohol, is popular among adolescents and young adults. The side effects of ED are attributed to their active ingredients and their cumulated effect. A cross-sectional study to identify university students’ ED consumption habit was realized. A small sample size (n = 10) experiment examining the effect of ED consumption on arterial blood pressure and heart rate was carried out.From the total number of 240 interviewed students, 87.1% consumed ED at least once, and one third of them did so on a monthly basis. Students consume energy drinks mainly for its taste, very rarely for studying. Differences in consumption place preferences were observed between sexes, females preferring bars, while males the dormitory. We have demonstrated the increase of systolic blood pressure (SBP) for one type of energy drink in young and healthy volunteer students. Other changes in blood pressure and heart rate were not observed.

Energy drink consumption pattern and the effect of consumption on university students’ blood pressure and heart rate

Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania

Faculty of Economics, Socio-Human Sciences and Engineering, Department of Bioengineering

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Alimentaria

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Energy drink (ED) consumption, even mixed with alcohol, is popular among adolescents and young adults. The side effects of ED are attributed to their active...

Energy drink consumption pattern and the effect of consumption on university students’ blood pressure and heart rate

Published Online: Dec 31, 2019

Page range: 104 - 119

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausal-2019-0008

Keywords
caffeinated drinks, questionnaire survey, volunteer students, cardiovascular parameters

© 2019 K. Nagy et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Energy drink consumption pattern and the effect of consumption on university students’ blood pressure and heart rate

Published Online: Dec 31, 2019

Page range: 104 - 119

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausal-2019-0008

Keywordscaffeinated drinks, questionnaire survey, volunteer students, cardiovascular parameters

© 2019 K. Nagy et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
caffeinated drinks, questionnaire survey, volunteer students, cardiovascular parameters