Sociodemographic differences in fast food price sensitivity.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Fiscal food policies (eg, taxation) are increasingly proposed to improve population-level health, but their impact on health disparities is unknown.

Objective

To estimate subgroup-specific effects of fast food price changes on fast food consumption and cardiometabolic outcomes.

Design, setting, and participants

Twenty-year follow-up (5 examinations) in a biracial US prospective cohort: Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) (1985/1986-2005/2006, baseline N = 5115). Participants were aged 18 to 30 years at baseline; design indicated equal recruitment by race (black vs white), educational attainment, age, and sex. Community-level price data from the Council for Community and Economic Research were temporally and geographically linked to stu

SUBMITTER: Meyer KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3963142 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature