City-Level Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes and Youth Body Mass Index Percentile.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Levying excise taxes on sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) distributors, which are subsequently passed on to consumers, is a policy implemented to reduce the high prevalence of cardiometabolic disease and generate public health funding. Taxes are associated with lower SSB purchases and consumption, but it is unknown whether they are associated with weight-related outcomes in youth.

Objective

To determine the association of SSB excise taxes with youth body mass index (BMI) trajectories.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study was conducted from 2009 to 2020, including 6 years before tax implementation and 4 to 6 years after tax implementation. The California cities of Albany, Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco, which implemented SSB excise taxes, w

SUBMITTER: Young DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11292449 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature