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Diet soda linked to heart attack, stroke
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February 21, 2012, Tuesday
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DIET soda may help the waistline, but people who drink it everyday may have a heightened risk of heart attack and stroke, a new United States study says.
Although the researchers, whose work appeared in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that older adults who drank diet soda every day were 44 percent more likely to suffer a heart attack, the study didn't prove that the sugar-free drinks alone were to blame.
There may be other things about diet-soda lovers that explain the link, said lead researcher Hannah Gardener, of the University of Miami, and her team, which tried to account for that, noting that daily diet-soda drinkers did tend to be heavier and more often have heart risk factors, such as high blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol.
Gardener and her team studied 2,564 New York City adults who were 69 years or older at the study's start. Over the next decade, 591 men and women had a heart attack, stroke or died of cardiovascular causes - including 31 percent of the 163 people who drank a diet soda daily. Overall, daily consumption of diet soda was linked to a 44-percent higher chance of heart attack or stroke, compared with 22 percent for people who rarely or never drank diet soda but had an attack or stroke.
Although the researchers, whose work appeared in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that older adults who drank diet soda every day were 44 percent more likely to suffer a heart attack, the study didn't prove that the sugar-free drinks alone were to blame.
There may be other things about diet-soda lovers that explain the link, said lead researcher Hannah Gardener, of the University of Miami, and her team, which tried to account for that, noting that daily diet-soda drinkers did tend to be heavier and more often have heart risk factors, such as high blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol.
Gardener and her team studied 2,564 New York City adults who were 69 years or older at the study's start. Over the next decade, 591 men and women had a heart attack, stroke or died of cardiovascular causes - including 31 percent of the 163 people who drank a diet soda daily. Overall, daily consumption of diet soda was linked to a 44-percent higher chance of heart attack or stroke, compared with 22 percent for people who rarely or never drank diet soda but had an attack or stroke.
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