Nearly half of the adolescents in an Italian school-based study exceeded the recommended upper limits for daily caffeine consumption.
Barbara SantangeloRosa LapollaIrene RutiglianoMassimo Pettoello MantovaniAngelo CampanozziPublished in: Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) (2018)
More than three quarters (76%) of the Italian adolescents in our study drank coffee on a daily basis and nearly half (46%) exceeded the recommended upper limits. Strategies are needed to reduce caffeine consumption by adolescents.