Overweight in childhood and consumer purchases in a Danish cohort
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Overweight in childhood and consumer purchases in a Danish cohort. / Sørensen, Kathrine Kold; Andersen, Mikkel Porsborg; Møller, Frederik Trier; Wiingreen, Rikke; Broccia, Marcella; Fosbøl, Emil L; Zareini, Bochra; Gerds, Thomas Alexander; Torp-Pedersen, Christian.
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T1 - Overweight in childhood and consumer purchases in a Danish cohort
AU - Sørensen, Kathrine Kold
AU - Andersen, Mikkel Porsborg
AU - Møller, Frederik Trier
AU - Wiingreen, Rikke
AU - Broccia, Marcella
AU - Fosbøl, Emil L
AU - Zareini, Bochra
AU - Gerds, Thomas Alexander
AU - Torp-Pedersen, Christian
N1 - Copyright: © 2024 Sørensen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - BACKGROUND: Prevention and management of childhood overweight involves the entire family. We aimed to investigate purchase patterns in households with at least one member with overweight in childhood by describing expenditure on different food groups.METHODS: This Danish register-based cohort study included households where at least one member donated receipts concerning consumers purchases in 2019-2021 and at least one member had their Body mass index (BMI) measured in childhood within ten years prior to first purchase. A probability index model was used to evaluate differences in proportion expenditure spent on specific food groups.RESULTS: We identified 737 households that included a member who had a BMI measurement in childhood, 220 with overweight and 517 with underweight or normal weight (reference households). Adjusting for education, income, family type, and urbanization, households with a member who had a BMI classified as overweight in childhood had statistically significant higher probability of spending a larger proportion of expenditure on ready meals 56.29% (95% CI: 51.70;60.78) and sugary drinks 55.98% (95% CI: 51.63;60.23). Conversely, they had a statistically significant lower probability of spending a larger proportion expenditure on vegetables 38.44% (95% CI: 34.09;42.99), compared to the reference households.CONCLUSION: Households with a member with BMI classified as overweight in childhood spent more on unhealthy foods and less on vegetables, compared to the reference households. This study highlights the need for household/family-oriented nutrition education and intervention.
AB - BACKGROUND: Prevention and management of childhood overweight involves the entire family. We aimed to investigate purchase patterns in households with at least one member with overweight in childhood by describing expenditure on different food groups.METHODS: This Danish register-based cohort study included households where at least one member donated receipts concerning consumers purchases in 2019-2021 and at least one member had their Body mass index (BMI) measured in childhood within ten years prior to first purchase. A probability index model was used to evaluate differences in proportion expenditure spent on specific food groups.RESULTS: We identified 737 households that included a member who had a BMI measurement in childhood, 220 with overweight and 517 with underweight or normal weight (reference households). Adjusting for education, income, family type, and urbanization, households with a member who had a BMI classified as overweight in childhood had statistically significant higher probability of spending a larger proportion of expenditure on ready meals 56.29% (95% CI: 51.70;60.78) and sugary drinks 55.98% (95% CI: 51.63;60.23). Conversely, they had a statistically significant lower probability of spending a larger proportion expenditure on vegetables 38.44% (95% CI: 34.09;42.99), compared to the reference households.CONCLUSION: Households with a member with BMI classified as overweight in childhood spent more on unhealthy foods and less on vegetables, compared to the reference households. This study highlights the need for household/family-oriented nutrition education and intervention.
KW - Humans
KW - Overweight
KW - Cohort Studies
KW - Income
KW - Vegetables
KW - Denmark
KW - Consumer Behavior
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0297386
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0297386
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 38470907
VL - 19
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
SN - 1932-6203
IS - 3
M1 - e0297386
ER -
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