Pascal Staccini, Annie Y S Lau
Consumer Informatics and One Health: Shifting the Focus from the Individual to the Globe. Findings from the Yearbook 2023 Section on Education and Consumer Health Informatics
Yearbook of medical informatics
sweetened beverage taxes associated reduced purchasing taxed beverages however studies assessed association sweetened beverage taxes health outcomes evaluate association seattle sweetened beverage tax change body mass index bmi among children longitudinal cohort study anthropometric data obtained electronic medical records 2 health care systems kaiser permanente washington kp seattle childrens hospital odessa brown childrens clinic obcc children included study aged 2 18 years january 1 2014 december 31 2019 least 1 weight measurement every year 2015 2019 lived seattle urban areas 3 surrounding counties king pierce snohomish moved taxed seattle nontaxed areas received primary health care kp obcc recent history cancer bariatric surgery pregnancy biologically plausible height bmi calculated weight kilograms divided height meters squared data analysis conducted august 5 2022 march 4 2024 seattle sweetened beverage tax 175 cents per ounce sweetened beverages implemented january 1 2018 primary outcome bmip95 bmi expressed percentage 95th percentile newly recommended metric assessing bmi change reference population age sex using centers disease control prevention growth charts primary synthetic differenceindifferences sdid model used comparison sample created reweighting comparison sample optimize matching pretax trends outcome among 6313 children seattle secondary models withinperson change models using 1 pretax measurement 1 posttax measurement 22 779 children fine stratification weights balance baseline individual neighborhoodlevel confounders primary sdid analysis included 6313 children 3041 female 48 3272 male 52 third children 2383 38 aged 2 5 years mean se age 77 06 years regard race ethnicity 789 children 13 asian 631 10 black 649 10 hispanic 3158 50 white primary model results suggested seattle tax associated larger decrease bmip95 children living seattle compared living comparison area sdid 090 percentage points 95 ci 120 060 p 001 results secondary models similar findings cohort study suggest seattle sweetened beverage tax associated modest decrease bmip95 among children living seattle compared children living nearby nontaxed areas receiving care within health care systems taken together existing studies us results suggest sweetened beverage taxes may effective policy improving childrens bmi future research test association using longitudinal data us cities sweetened beverage taxes