The Effects of Dietary Sugars on Cardiovascular Disease and Cardiovascular Disease –Related Mortality: Finding the Sweet Spot

The role of diet for the prevention and treatment of noncommunicable chronic diseases (NCDs) has been object of intense scrutiny in the last several decades. Recent data suggest that dietary factors are responsible for more than 40% of the most common cardiometabolic-related deaths in the United States.1 Most of the available evidence investigating the relationship between diet and cardiometabolic diseases, however, largely relies on observational studies that investigate the association between macronutrient and micronutrient consumption with the risk of NCDs, such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), many forms of cancer, and cardiovascular (CV) diseases (CVDs).
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