Association of Chain Restaurant Advertising Spending With Obesity in US Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Restaurants spend billions of dollars on marketing. However, little is known about the association between restaurant marketing and obesity risk in adults.

Objective

To examine associations between changes in per capita county-level restaurant advertising spending over time and changes in objectively measured body mass index (BMI) for adult patients.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used regression models with county fixed effects to examine associations between changes in per capita county-level (370 counties across 44 states) restaurant advertising spending over time with changes in objectively measured body mass index (BMI) for US adult patients from 2013 to 2016. Different media types and restaurant types were analyzed together and se

SUBMITTER: Bleich SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7542328 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature