Drinking one or more sugary drinks every day may increase your risk of liver disease

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Drinking one or more sugar-sweetened drinks per day may increase the chance of liver cancer and death from liver disease in older women, according to international researchers. The team studied over 98,000 postmenopausal women between 50 and 79 years old in the US, finding that compared with those with an intake of three or fewer servings per month, those who consumed one or more servings per day had a significantly higher risk of liver cancer and death from liver disease. The researchers did not find an increase in these risks from artificially sweetened drinks.

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From: JAMA

Sugar-Sweetened and Artificially Sweetened Beverages and Risk of Liver Cancer, Chronic Liver Disease Mortality

About The Study: Among 98,000 postmenopausal women, compared with consuming three or fewer servings of sugar-sweetened beverages per month, those who consumed one or more sugar-sweetened beverages per day had a higher incidence of liver cancer and death from chronic liver disease. Future studies should confirm these findings and identify the biological pathways of these associations.

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Organisation/s: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA

Funder: The WHI program is funded by the NHLBI, NIH, and the US Department of Health and Human Services through contracts HHSN268201600018C, HHSN268201600001C, HHSN268201600002C, HHSN268201600003C, and HHSN268201600004C. Dr Xuehong Zhang is supported by NIH/NCI grants (R21 CA238651, R21 CA252962, R37 CA262299, U01 CA259208, and U01 CA272452), an American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant (RSG-17-190-01-NEC), and an American Cancer Society Interdisciplinary Team Award (PASD-22-1003396-01-PASD).

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