The Philadelphia Beverage Tax and Pediatric Weight Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Taxation of sweetened beverages is a proposed strategy to reduce excess sugar consumption. The association of such taxes with health outcomes is not well studied. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the largest US city with a beverage tax.

Objective

To assess whether the 2017 Philadelphia beverage tax was associated with changes in pediatric weight outcomes.

Design, setting, and participants

This study used difference-in-differences models weighted by inverse probability of treatment weights to adjust for differences between youth in Philadelphia (tax exposed) and in the surrounding counties (control) on age, sex, race, ethnicity, Medicaid insurance status, health care use, and census-tract socioeconomic index. Mixed-effects linear and logistic regression models

SUBMITTER: Gregory EF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11589857 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature