Taxing sweetened drinks . . . and other stories
BMJ 2024; 385 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q1354 (Published 27 June 2024) Cite this as: BMJ 2024;385:q1354
Sweet drinks tax
Seattle is one of seven US cities that have implemented taxes on sweetened beverages. Sales have fallen and a complicated analysis of longitudinal data on 6000 children finds evidence of a reduction in adiposity. The primary outcome was children’s BMIp95, which is body mass index expressed as a percentage of the 95th percentile for an age and sex-matched reference population—a measure of adiposity thought to be better at capturing change than a BMI z score. Children living in the city showed a greater change in BMIp95 than those living in a nearby non-taxed comparison area (JAMA Netw Open doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.13644).
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