Overweight in childhood and consumer purchases in a Danish cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prevention and management of childhood overweight involves the entire family. We aimed to investigate purchase patterns in households with at least one member with overweight in childhood by describing expenditure on different food groups.

Methods

This Danish register-based cohort study included households where at least one member donated receipts concerning consumers purchases in 2019-2021 and at least one member had their Body mass index (BMI) measured in childhood within ten years prior to first purchase. A probability index model was used to evaluate differences in proportion expenditure spent on specific food groups.

Results

We identified 737 households that included a member who had a BMI measurement in childhood, 220 with overweight and 517 with und

SUBMITTER: Sorensen KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10931458 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature