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Sugar sweetened beverages and cardiometabolic health
Purpose of review: It is widely accepted that sugar sweetened beverages (SSB) are implicated in weight gain and adverse cardiometabolic heath. To make informed recommendations about SSB, new evidence needs to be considered against existing literature. The present review will provide an update on the epidemiological and trial evidence linking intake of SSB to cardiometabolic outcomes. Recent findings: The weight of the evidence from prospective cohort studies supports a strong positive association between intake of SSB and weight gain and risk type 2 diabetes (T2D) and coronary heart disease (CHD) that is independent of ad...
Source: Current Opinion in Cardiology - August 15, 2017 Category: Cardiology Tags: PREVENTION: Edited by Andrew L. Pipe Source Type: research