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Oliver T. Mytton
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3218-9912
Nita G. Forouhi
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5041-248X
Peter Scarborough
Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Marleen Lentjes
Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Strangeways Research Laboratories, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Robert Luben
Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Strangeways Research Laboratories, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5088-6343
Mike Rayner
Roles Conceptualization, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0479-6483
Kay Tee Khaw
Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Strangeways Research Laboratories, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Nicholas J. Wareham
Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1422-2993
Pablo Monsivais
Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliations UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7088-6674Abstract
Background
In the United Kingdom, the Food Standards Agency-Ofcom nutrient profiling model (FSA-Ofcom model) is used to define less-healthy foods that cannot be advertised to children. However, there has been limited investigation of whether less-healthy foods defined by this model are associated with prospective health outcomes. The objective of this study was to...