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Are diet soft drinks invitation to heart attacks?
Wednesday February 01, 2012 03:08:07 PM,
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Washington: People who
consume diet soft drinks daily could be unwittingly inviting
strokes and heart attacks.
Conversely, taking them in moderation don't seem to perk chances
of vascular events, a form of cardiovascular disease primarily
affecting the blood vessels, says a new study.
It was conducted by Hannah Gardener and colleagues from the
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Columbia
University Medical Centre, the Journal of General Internal
Medicine reports.
Diet soft drinks are typically sugar-free, artificially sweetened,
non-alcoholic carbonated beverages generally marketed towards
health-conscious people, diabetics, athletes, and other people who
want to lose weight.
Gardener and team examined the relationship between both diet and
regular soft drink consumption and risk of stroke or myocardial
infarction (heart attack), according to a Miami statement.
Data were analyzed from 2,564 participants in the Northern
Manhattan Study, which was designed to determine stroke incidence,
risk factors and prognosis in a multi-ethnic urban population.
The researchers looked at how often individuals drank soft drinks
-- diet and regular -- and the number of vascular events that
occurred over a 10-year period.
They found that those who drank diet soft drinks daily were 43
percent more likely to have suffered a vascular event than those
who drank none, after taking into account pre-existing vascular
conditions such as metabolic syndrome, diabetes and high blood
pressure.
Gardener concludes: "Our results suggest a potential association
between daily diet soft drink consumption and vascular outcomes.
However, the mechanisms by which soft drinks may affect vascular
events are unclear."
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