Diet Drinks Linked To Heart Attacks
Drinking two or more diet sodas a day is linked to an increased risk of stroke heart attacks and early death in women over 50 a new study says.
Diet drinks linked to heart attacks. After dropping the first three years of a decades worth of follow up data to. The study headed up by dr. Diet soft drinks linked to heart attacks strokes and cardiovascular deaths doctors say. This compares to 6 9 in the five to seven diet drinks per week group 6 8 in the one to four drinks per week group and 7 2 in the zero to three per month group.
Diet drinks such as diet coke and diet fruit juice are linked to an increased risk for stroke and are particularly associated with blood clots of the small arteries according to a new study published today in stroke. Heart attack and 50. Drinking diet drinks everyday linked to dying young the findings published in the journal stroke were based on a big study of women and showed being obese and downing diet drinks. Ankur vyas was one of the most comprehensive of its type with nearly 60 000 women participating over nine years known as the women s health initiative observational study the research found that participants who drank two or more cans of diet soda a day were 30 more likely to have a cardiovascular event e g.
While the results of the study do raise concerns about the potential impact of diet drinks on our health an observational study like this isn t able to prove that diet drinks were the cause of any strokes or heart disease. Including strokes and heart attacks. Diet drinks linked to same heart issues as sweetened beverages study says. The risk was highest for obese and african.
A 2019 study found drinking two or more of any kind of artificially sweetened drinks a day was linked to an increased risk of clot based strokes heart attacks and early death in women over 50. 8 5 of the women who drank two or more diet drinks a day experienced one or more interventions over the course of the study. Dangers of drinking diet soda. Experts suggest dramatically reducing soda consumption and offer tips.
The study was co authored by shirley beresford senior associate dean and professor of epidemiology at the university of washington school of public health.