date:Jun 08, 2012
tened beverages are independently associated with an increased risk of incident hypertension after controlling for multiple potential confounders,revealed the authors led byLisa Cohen from theUniversity of Maryland Medical Center, USA.
These associations may be mediated by factors common to both sugar sweetened beverages and artificially sweetened but are unlikely to be due to fructose,they added.
Study details
Cohen and her colleagues looked at data from three large-scale studies, includin