Taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages for reducing their consumption and preventing obesity or other adverse health outcomes

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2016, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Heise, Thomas L ^a,b   Katikireddi, Srinivasa V ^c   Pega, Frank ^d   Gartlehner, Gerald ^e   Fenton, Candida ^c   Griebler, Ursula ^e   Sommer, Isolde ^e   Pfinder, Manuela ^a,b,f   Lhachimi, Stefan K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR PREVENTION RESEARCH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY BIPS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^e DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

^f Department for Evidence based Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; BEVERAGE; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUGAR SWEETENED BEVERAGE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TAX; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; WAIST TO HEIGHT RATIO;

EID: 84982227958     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD012319     Document Type: Review

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