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Potential impact on prevalence of obesity in the UK of a 20% price increase in high sugar snacks: modelling study
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OBJECTIVE:To estimate the potential impact on body mass index (BMI) and prevalence of obesity of a 20% price increase in high sugar snacks. DESIGN:Modelling study. SETTING:General adult population of the United Kingdom. PARTICIPANTS:36 324 households with data on product level household expenditure from UK Kantar FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) panel for January 2012 to December 2013. Data were used to estimate changes in energy (kcal, 1 kcal=4.18 kJ=0.00418 MJ) purchase associated with a 2...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
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Wellcome Trust
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BMJ Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMJ
- Volume:
- 2019
- Issue:
- 366
- Article number:
- l4786
- Publication date:
- 2019-09-04
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-07-17
- DOI:
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1756-1833
- ISSN:
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0959-8138
- Pmid:
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31484641
- Source identifiers:
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1050828
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- English
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- pubs:1050828
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- 2019-09-18
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- 2019
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- This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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