ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2023
Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes and Perinatal Health: A Quasi-Experimental Study.
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- Impact of sugary drink taxes on beverage calories purchased in a national fast food restaurant chain: A quasi-experimental study.PLoS medicine · 2026Article
- Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes and Health System Costs in Standard Public Maternity Care Compared to Private Obstetric-Led Care: A Population-Level Matched Cohort Study.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2026Observational
- Trends in cardiometabolic conditions and pregnancy outcomes: a retrospective cohort study in South-Eastern Melbourne.BMJ open · 2025Article
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- An application of the augmented synthetic control method within a target trial framework: the case of the soda tax policy in California.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The Philadelphia Beverage Tax and Pediatric Weight Outcomes.JAMA pediatrics · 2025Article
- A narrative review on the relationship between consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and post-partum non-communicable diseases among women.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- Maternal Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States: An Interrupted Time-series Analysis.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Associations of the Philadelphia sweetened beverage tax with changes in adult body weight: an interrupted time series analysis.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2024Article
- The Effect of City-Level Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes on Longitudinal HbA1c and Incident Diabetes in Adults With Prediabetes.Diabetes care · 2024Article
- Evaluation of Changes in Prices and Purchases Following Implementation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes Across the US.JAMA health forum · 2024Article
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Abstract
introductionOne in 5 pregnant individuals report consuming sugar-sweetened beverages at least once per day. Excess sugar consumption during pregnancy is associated with several perinatal complications. As sugar-sweetened beverage taxes become increasingly common public health measures to reduce sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, evidence of the downstream effects of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes on perinatal health remains limited.
methodsThis longitudinal retrospective study examines whether sugar-sweetened beverage taxes in 5 U.S. cities were associated with decreased risk of perinatal complications, leveraging 2013-2019 U.S. national birth certificate data and a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences approach to estimate changes in perinatal outcomes. Analysis occurred from April 2021 through January 2023.
resultsThe sample included 5,324,548 pregnant individuals and their live singleton births in the U.S. from 2013 through 2019. Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes were associated with a 41.4% decreased risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (-2.2 percentage points; 95% CI= -4.2, -0.2), a -7.9% reduction in weight-gain-for-gestational-age z-score (-0.2 standard deviations; 95% CI= -0.3, -0.01), and decreased risk of infants born small for gestational age (-4.3 percentage points; 95% CI= -6.5, -2.1). There were heterogeneous effects across subgroups, particularly for weight-gain-for-gestational-age z-score.
conclusionsSugar-sweetened beverage taxes levied in five U.S. cities were associated with improvements in perinatal health. Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes may be an effective policy instrument for improving health during pregnancy, a critical window during which short-term dietary exposures can have lifelong consequences for the birthing person and child.
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