Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes and Perinatal Health: A Quasi-Experimental Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

One in 5 pregnant individuals report consuming sugar-sweetened beverages at least once per day. Excess sugar consumption during pregnancy is associated with several perinatal complications. As sugar-sweetened beverage taxes become increasingly common public health measures to reduce sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, evidence of the downstream effects of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes on perinatal health remains limited.

Methods

This longitudinal retrospective study examines whether sugar-sweetened beverage taxes in 5 U.S. cities were associated with decreased risk of perinatal complications, leveraging 2013-2019 U.S. national birth certificate data and a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences approach to estimate changes in perinatal outcomes. Analysis

SUBMITTER: Jackson KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10518370 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature