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TUESDAY, Oct. 27, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Higher intake of sugary beverages and artificially sweetened beverages (ASBs) is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to a research letter published online Oct. 26 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Eloi Chazelas, from Sorbonne Paris Nord University, and colleagues examined the correlations between consumption of sugary drinks and ASBs and the risk for CVD in a prospective cohort. Participants were asked to complete three validated web-based 24-hour dietary records every six months. Three categories of intake were defined for each type of beverage: nonconsumers, low consumers, and high consumers. The first incident cases of stroke, transient ischemic attack, myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndrome, and angioplasty were identified; cases occurring during the first three years of follow-up were excluded to account for potential reverse causality bias.<\/p>\n
Data were included for 104,760 participants. The researchers found that there were 1,379 first incident cases of CVD during follow-up (2009 to 2019). Higher consumers of sugary drinks and ASBs had higher risks for first incident CVD compared with nonconsumers (hazard ratios, 1.20 and 1.32, respectively).<\/p>\n
“These data provide additional arguments to fuel the current debate on taxes, labeling, and regulation of sugary drinks and ASB,” the authors write. “To establish a causal link, replication in other large-scale prospective cohorts and mechanistic investigations are needed.”<\/p>\n
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